W. H. Auden Quotes About Mankind

Quotes about: Mankind

• 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

• The condition of mankind is, and always has been, so miserable and depraved that, if anyone were to say to the poet: "For God's sake stop singing and do something useful like putting on the kettle or fetching bandages," what just reason could he give for refusing?

  W. H. Auden

  Giving, Singing, Sake

  "The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays" by W. H. Auden, ("Writing"), (p. 27), 1962.

• Alone, alone, about the dreadful wood / Of conscious evil runs a lost mankind, / Dreading to find its Father.

  W. H. Auden

  Running, Father, Loneliness

  W. H. Auden (2013). “For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio”, p.7, Princeton University Press

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