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W. H. Auden Quotes

«O for doors to be open and an invite with gilded edges / To dine with Lord Lobcock and Count Asthma.»
«One tapped my shoulder and asked me `How did you fall, sir?' / Whereat I awakened.»
«The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.»
«All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work ''comes'' to him.»
Author: W. H. Auden (Dramatist, Editor, Poet) | Keywords: commissioned
«One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.»
Author: W. H. Auden (Dramatist, Editor, Poet) | Keywords: assembly, factory
«Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire; it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire.»
«The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.»
«God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.»
Author: W. H. Auden (Dramatist, Editor, Poet) | Keywords: the USA, U.S.A., USA
«Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to command their respect, the result is an orderly happy household. If he is too tyrannical, they give notice; if he lacks authority, they become slovenly, impertinent, drunk and dishonest.»
«Few writers have had less journalistic talent than James, and this is his defect, for the supreme masters have one trait in common with the childish scribbling mass, the vulgar curiosity of a police-court reporter.»