W. H. Auden Quotes

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• Those who hate to go to bed fear death; those who hate to get up fear life.

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  Hate, Bed, Get Up

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

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  Inspirational, Funny, Helping Others

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

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• Nobody is ever sent to Hell: he or she insists on going there.

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  Hell

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• But once in a while the odd thing happens
  Once in a while the dream comes true
  And the whole pattern of life is altered
  Once in a while, the moon turns blue

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  Dream, Moon, Blue

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• Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.

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  Respect, Civilization, Diversity

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• There's always another story. There's more than meets the eye.

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  Eye, Stories, More Than Meets The Eye

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.86, DEBOLS!LLO

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• We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.

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  Change, Religion, Growth

  Wystan Hugh Auden (2011). “The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue”, p.105, Princeton University Press

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• The most important truths are likely to be those which society at that time least wants to hear.

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  Truth, Important, Want

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• No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.

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  Inspirational, Leadership, Joy

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• The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity.

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  Eye, Ears, Likes

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• A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

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  Real, Book, Reading

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• The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

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  Inspirational, Mind, Unconscious

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• Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

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  Evil, Politics, Imagine

  "A Certain World". Book by W. H. Auden, 1970.

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• The lights must never go out,
  The music must always play

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  Light, Play

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.159, DEBOLS!LLO

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• People always get what they want. But there is a price for everything. Failures are either those who do not know what they want or are not prepared to pay the price asked them. The price varies from individual to individual. Some get things at bargain-sale prices, others only at famine prices. But it is no use grumbling. Whatever price you are asked, you must pay.

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  Pay The Price, People, Grumbling

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• Those who will not reason, perish in the act. Those who will not act, perish for that reason.

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  Reason

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  Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

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  Love, Motivational, Strength

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

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• A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it.

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  Artist, Craftsman, Results

  "Forewords and Afterwords" by W. H. Auden, ("A Poet of the Actual"), (p. 265), 1973.

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• Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.

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  Art, Thinking, Feelings

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• I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen.

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  Blood, Smell, Eras

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• All that we are not stares back at what we are.

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  Crazy, Mad, Staring

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• We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.

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  Children, Growing Up, Learning

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• Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.

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  Mother, Writing, Language

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• The poet marries the language, and out of this marriage the poem is born.

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  Language, Poet, Born

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• It's better to say, 'I'm suffering,' than to say, 'This landscape is ugly.

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  Suffering, Criticism, Ugly

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