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There are 69 quotes for the author W. H. Auden

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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
Subject: Books

One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
Subject: Criticism

Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire; it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at.

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.

There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, ''Did you get an erection?'' If the answer is ''Yes'' from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic.

Art is born of humiliation.

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.

Your cameraman might enjoy himself because my face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.

We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

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

When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.

You have to see the sex act comically, as a child.

You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.

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