W. H. Auden Quotes About Hope

Quotes about: Hope

• A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.

  W. H. Auden

  Hope, Food, Cooking

  Collected Poems (1976) p. 639

• Weep for the lives your wishes never led.

  W. H. Auden

  Life, Hope, Wish

• I sit in one of the dives
  On Fifty-second Street
  Uncertain and afraid
  As the clever hopes expire
  Of a low dishonest decade

  W. H. Auden

  Hope, Clever, Fear

  "September 1, 1939" l. 1 (1939)

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