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 -
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 4 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 5 Share Now -
'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' - W. H. Auden 6 Share Now -
Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another. - W. H. Auden 8 Share Now -
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. - W. H. Auden 9 Share Now -
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. - W. H. Auden 10 Share Now -
