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. - W. H. Auden 1 Share Now -
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. - W. H. Auden 2 Share Now -
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes. - W. H. Auden 3 Share Now -
'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' - W. H. Auden 4 Share Now -
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. - W. H. Auden 5 Share Now -
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. - W. H. Auden 6 Share Now -
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. - W. H. Auden 8 Share Now -
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. - W. H. Auden 9 Share Now -
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. - W. H. Auden 10 Share Now -