Like love we don't know where or why Like love we cant compel or fly Like Love we often weep Like Love we seldom keep W. H. Auden More Quotes by W. H. Auden More Quotes From W. H. Auden My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain. W. H. Auden cakecomplainingrain The lights must never go out, W. H. Auden lightplay Say this city has ten million souls, Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes: Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s no place for us. W. H. Auden holessoulcities Criticism should be a casual conversation. W. H. Auden criticismshouldconversation To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal. W. H. Auden huntstalesfairy-tale A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it. W. H. Auden craftsmanresultsartist The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write, while very few men are taught to draw or paint or write music. W. H. Auden taughtwritingmen How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. W. H. Auden mathhappinessscience Few people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate. W. H. Auden icelandpassionatepeople Art is born of humiliation. W. H. Auden humiliationbornart The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears. W. H. Auden holidaynew-yearfunny We are lived by powers we pretend to understand. W. H. Auden Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation. W. H. Auden alternativesthank-godbook Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. W. H. Auden medicalmedicinestates See without looking, hear without listening, breathe without asking. W. H. Auden philosophicalaskinglistening Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. W. H. Auden bedtablesevil To make one, there must be two. W. H. Auden marriagetwo Love each other or perish. W. H. Auden love-each-otherhelping-others Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return. W. H. Auden worksuccesspatience Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were. W. H. Auden sensualwishdesire
