W. H. Auden Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

  W. H. Auden

  Inspirational, Funny, Helping Others

  W H Auden (1981). “Antæus”, Ecco Press

• Water is the soul of the Earth.

  W. H. Auden

  Water, Soul, Earth

• Of course, Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviourist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.

  W. H. Auden

  Funny, Science, Simple

  A CertainWorld "Behaviorism" (1970)

• Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Lying, Poetry

  "In Memory of W. B. Yeats" l. 42 (1940)

• Moreover, if great men are the only hope of the Evolutionary Process, they are morally bound to rule over the masses for their own good -- we are all here on earth to help others: what on earth the others are here for, I don't know -- and the masses have no right whatsoever to resist them.

  W. H. Auden

  Helping Others, Men, Earth

• We were put on this earth to make things.

  W. H. Auden

  Earth

• Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.

  W. H. Auden

  Needs, Earth, Mankind

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.258, DEBOLS!LLO

• Who on earth invented the silly convention that it is boring or impolite to talk shop? Nothing is more interesting to listen to, especially if the shop is not one's own.

  W. H. Auden

  Silly, Interesting, Listening

• We are all here on earth to help others.

  W. H. Auden

  Funny Life, Helping Others, Earth

  W H Auden (1981). “Antæus”, Ecco Press

• We were put on this Earth to help others. Why others were put here is
  beyond me.

  W. H. Auden

  Helping Others, Earth, Helping

• Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth indifference is the least We have to dread from man or beast. How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me. Admirer as I think I am Of stars that do not give a damn, I cannot, now I see them, say I missed one terribly all day. Were all stars to disappear or die, I should learn to look at an empty sky And feel its total dark sublime, Though this might take me a little time.

  W. H. Auden

  Stars, Passion, Dark

  W. H. Auden, “The More Loving One”

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