W. H. Auden Quotes About Death

Quotes about: Death

• To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

  W. H. Auden

  Death, War, Men

  Shield of Achilles (1955) "Epitaph for the Unknown Soldier"

• He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Death, Song

  "Funeral Blues" l. 9 (1936)

• The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

  W. H. Auden

  Death, Men, Gmos

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.148, DEBOLS!LLO

• Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

  W. H. Auden

  Death, Philosophical, Sound

• One rational voice is dumb: over a grave
  The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved.
  Sad is Eros, builder of cities,
  And weeping anarchic Aphrodite.

  W. H. Auden

  Death, Cities, Voice

  "In Memory of Sigmund Freud" l. 109 (1939)

• Time and fevers burn away
  Individual beauty from
  Thoughtful children, and the grave
  Proves the child ephemeral

  W. H. Auden

  Death, Children, Thoughtful

  'Another Time' (1940) no. 18, p. 43

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