W. H. Auden Quotes & Sayings
74 most famous W. H. Auden quotes and sayings (poet). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.”
“Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.”
“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.”
“All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.”
“Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.”
“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.”
“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.”
“A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.”
“We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.”
“If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.”
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