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

When it comes, will it come without warning/ Just as I'm picking my nose?/ Will it knock on my door in the morning,/ Or tread in the bus on my toes?/ Will it come like a change in the weather?/ Will its greeting be courteous or rough? - W. H. Auden

When I look back at the three or four choices in my life which have been decisive, I find that, at the time I made them, I had very little sense of the seriousness of what I was doing and only later did I discover what had seemed an unimportant brook. - W. H. Auden

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

When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes. - W. H. Auden

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