W. H. Auden Quotes About Youth

Quotes about: Youth

• Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits them - the one, in fact, which is not a mask.

  W. H. Auden

  Finding The One, People, Trying

  "Forewords and Afterwords" by W. H. Auden, ("One of the Family"), (p. 369), 1973.

• If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to believe It will get away with anything, while age Knows only too well that it has got away with nothing.

  W. H. Auden

  Believe, Wicked, Age

• To my generation no other English poet seemed so perfectly to express the sensibility of a male adolescent. If I do not now turn to him very often, I am eternally grateful to him for the joy he gave me in my youth.

  W. H. Auden

  Grateful, Joy, Males

  1972 Of A E Housman.'A Worcestershire Lad', collected in Forewords and After words (1973).

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