Quotes by W. H. Auden

W. H. Auden

American poet

Lived from: 1907 - 1973

Category: Poets (Contemporary)

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  • 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.
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  • To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word ''Intellectual'' suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to his wife.
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  • We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
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  • We must love one another or die.
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  • When a succesful author analyzes the reasons for his success, he generally underestimates the talent he was born with, and overestimates his skill in employing it.
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  • 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.
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  • When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
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  • You have to see the sex act comically, as a child.
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  • You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
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  • You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.
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