Quotes by Auden, W. H.

Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying. >>

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. >>

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something t >>

Quotations about Names

I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the >>

How could I have been anything else but what I am, having been named M >>

Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesi >>

Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.

Auden, W. H.