W. H. Auden Quotes


You will be a poet because you will always be humiliated. - W. H. Auden



You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at. - W. H. Auden



You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people. - W. H. Auden



Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose. - W. H. Auden



Within these breakwaters English is spoken; without / Is the immense, improbable atlas. - W. H. Auden



When one has great gifts, what answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise them? - W. H. Auden