W. H. Auden Quotes About Duty

Quotes about: Duty

• As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption.

  W. H. Auden

  Political, Language, Corruption

• Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of discovering who we are, which involves learning the differences between accidental limitations which it is our duty to outgrow and the necessary limitations of our nature beyond which we cannot trespass with impunity.

  W. H. Auden

  Differences, Age, Who We Are

• A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use of his mother tongue, which is always being corrupted. When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.

  W. H. Auden

  Mother, Writing, Political

  "Paris Review", Writers at Work, 4th series, (p. 251), 1972.

• We till shadowed days are done,
  We must weep and sing
  Duty's conscious wrong,
  The Devil in the clock

  W. H. Auden

  Work, Devil, Done

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.83, DEBOLS!LLO

• There are bills to be paid, machines to keep in repair,
  Irregular verbs to learn, the Time Being to redeem
  From insignificance.

  W. H. Auden

  Responsibility, Verbs, Machines

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