Quotes by Auden, W. H.

The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is >>

I cannot accept the doctrine that in poetry there is a suspension of b >>

We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here fo >>

Quotations about Literature

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite >>

In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors >>

The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the >>

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.

Auden, W. H.