W. H. Auden Quotes - Page 2

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• I think the first prerequisite to civilization is an ability to make polite conversation.

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  Thinking, Civilization, Firsts

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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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• Fate succumbs many a species: one alone jeopardises itself.

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  Life, Fate, Species

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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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• Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say

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  People, Negative, Bad People

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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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• 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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• You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.

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  Stewardship

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• Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

  W. H. Auden

  Inspirational, Genius, Want

  In Dag Hammarskj"ld Markings (1964) foreword

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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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• Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation.

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  Book, Thank God, Alternatives

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• The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say that all men, left to themselves, become gnostics. They may swagger like peacocks, but in their heart of hearts they all think sex an indignity and wish they could beget themselves on themselves. Hence the aggressive hostility toward women so manifest in most club-car stories.

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  Sex, Heart, Men

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• We are all here on earth to help others.

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  Funny Life, Helping Others, Earth

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

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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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• 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.

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  Love, Stars, Ocean

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

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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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• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

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  Music, Art, Philosophy

  Quoted in Robert Craft Stravinsky: Chronicle of a Friendship (1972).

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

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  Love, Passion, Language Words

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

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

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  Love, Fuel, Excellent

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• Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

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  Unique, Men, Mirrors

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• Cats can be very funny, and have the oddest ways of showing they're glad to see you.

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  Cat, Way, Glad

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• I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen.

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  Blood, Smell, Eras

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• A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

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  Inspirational, Graduation, Education

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• In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

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  Dog, Joy, Tails

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

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  Eye, Ears, Likes

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