Quotes by Auden, W. H.

God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first b >>

God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. >>

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can crea >>

Quotations about Faces

The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of >>

The eyes those silent tongues of love. >>

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and >>

Every European visitor to the United States is struck by the comparative rarity of what he would call a face, by the frequency of men and women who look like elderly babies. If he stays in the States for any length of time, he will learn that this cannot be put down to a lack of sensibility -- the American feels the joys and sufferings of human life as keenly as anybody else. The only plausible explanation I can find lies in his different attitude to the past. To have a face, in the European sense of the word, it would seem that one must not only enjoy and suffer but also desire to preserve the memory of even the most humiliating and unpleasant experiences of the past.

Auden, W. H.