Wystan Hugh Auden quotes and words of wisdom

"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."
Found in the topic Laugh.

"What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish."
Found in the topic Media.

"Geniuses are the luckiest mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"Evil is unspectacular and always human And shares our bed and eats at our own table."
Found in the topic Evil.

"To save your world you asked this man to die; Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?"
Found in the topic World.

"We are here on Earth to do good for others. What the others are here for, I do not know."
Found in the topic Earth.

"Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind."
Found in the topic History.

"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."
Found in the topic Mathematics.

"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."
Found in the topic Opera.

"It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it."
Found in the topic Poetry.

"All that we are not stares back at what we are."
Found in the topic Life.

"A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish."
Found in the topic Dream.

"A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us."
Found in the topic Book.

"All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation."
Found in the topic Sin.

"A professor is one who talks in someone else"s sleep."
Found in the topic Professions.

"Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance."
Found in the topic Theory.

"You owe it to us all to get on with what you"re good at."
Found in the topic Get.

Interesting Quotes

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.Mahatma Gandhi - Indian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 - 1948)

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.Martin Luther King