Quotes by Auden, W. H.

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their s >>

Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he re >>

Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master i >>

Quotations about Sensitivity

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it wou >>

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us >>

How frail the human heart must be --a mirrored pool of thought... >>

It is... axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.

Auden, W. H.