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W. H. Auden Quotes

«Private faces in public places / Are wiser and nicer / Than public faces in private places.»
Author: W. H. Auden (Dramatist, Editor, Poet) | Keywords: in private, nicer
«May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that ''faith'' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?»
«A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.»
«The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all / isn't respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth.»
«If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor.»
Author: W. H. Auden (Dramatist, Editor, Poet) | Keywords: namely
«Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.»
«Within these breakwaters English is spoken; without / Is the immense, improbable atlas.»
Author: W. H. Auden (Dramatist, Editor, Poet) | Keywords: atlas, improbable
«''God is Love,'' we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.»
«Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.»
«Noises at dawn will bring / Freedom for some, but not this peace / No bird can contradict.»

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