W. H. Auden Quotes About Love

Quotes about: Love

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  Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Motivational, Strength

  W. H. Auden, Katherine Bucknell (2003). “Juvenilia: Poems, 1922-1928”, p.105, Princeton University Press

• Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Dyer's Hand (1963) "Notes on the Comic"

• A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Passion, Language Words

  "Poets at Work" by W. H. Auden, (p. 170), 1948.

• If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Heart, Affection

  W. H. Auden, Katherine Bucknell (2003). “Juvenilia: Poems, 1922-1928”, p.41, Princeton University Press

• A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist. This means that in order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character, that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Character, Mean

• We must love one another or die

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Philosophy, Educational

  "September 1, 1939" l. 88 (1939). In a 1955 printing of the poem Auden changed this to "love one another and die."

• I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Valentines Day, Rivers

  Another Time (1940) "As I Walked Out One Evening"

• 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)

• A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Inspirational, Dream

• A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Enchantment, Lasts

• The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Order, Mind

  Dyer's Hand (1963) "Hic et Ille"

• Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Relationship, Running

  Dyer's Hand (1963) "Hic et Ille"

• Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Beautiful, Fall

• I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Stars, Ocean

  Another Time (1940) "As I Walked Out One Evening"

• God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, God, Children

• We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Country, Children

• Money cannot buy the fuel of love but is excellent kindling.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Fuel, Excellent

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