W. H. Auden Quotes

What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social intercourse. There are three cardinal rules -- don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters. - W. H. Auden

What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return. - W. H. Auden

We would rather be ruined than changed, We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment And let our illusions die. - W. H. Auden

We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know. - W. H. Auden

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. - W. H. Auden

We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons. - W. H. Auden

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? - W. H. Auden

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention --on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God. . . - W. H. Auden

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