He who despises himself, nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser. (Nietz
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W.H. Auden currently has 97 indexed quotes and 20 linked works on QuoteMust. This page is the canonical destination for that author archive.
Works
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A Certain World: A Commonplace Book
Acting Up
Another Time
As I Walked Out One Evening: Songs, Ballads, Lullabies, Limericks & Other Light Verse
Auden: Poems
Collected Poems
Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957
Enchafed Flood
Forewords and Afterwords
Lectures on Shakespeare
Letters from Iceland
Markings
New Year Letter
Selected Essays
Selected Poems
The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue
The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume II: 1939-1948
The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III: 1949-1955
The Dyer's Hand
The Sea and the Mirror
Quotes
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The slogan of Hell: Eat or be eaten. The slogan of Heaven: Eat and be eaten.
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
If you want romance, fuck a journalist.
Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.
My second thoughts condemnAnd wonder how I dareTo look you in the eye.What right have I to swearEven at one a.m.To love you till I die?Earth meets too many crimesFor fibs to interest her;If I can give my word,Forgiveness can recurAny number of timesIn Time. Which is absurd.Tempus fugit. Quite.So finish up your drink.All flesh is grass. It is. But who on earth can thinkWith heavy heart or lightOf what will come of this?
Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot readThe hunter's waking thoughts.