W. H. Auden Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

W. H. Auden quotes and sayings page 3 (poet). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 74 we have.

“Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.”

“For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?”

“The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.”

“Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.”

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

“Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.”

“Now is the age of anxiety.”

“In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.”

“Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.”

“The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.”