Quotes from Poems — W. H. Auden
1907–1973 England
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6 quotes
Let us honor if we can
The vertical man
Though we value none
But the horizontal one.
Poems (1933)
Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at
New styles of architecture, a change of heart.
Poems (1933)
To ask the hard question is simple,
The simple act of the confused will.
Poems (1933)
Put the car away; when life fails
What's the good of going to Wales?
Here am I, here are you:
But what does it mean? What are we going to do?
Poems (1933)
If we really want to live, we’d better start at once to try;
If we don’t it doesn’t matter, but we’d better start to die.
Poems (1933)
Sir, no man's enemy, forgiving all
But will his negative inversion, be prodigal:
Send to us power and light, a sovereign touch
Curing the intolerable neural itch,
The exhaustion of weaning, the liar's quinsy,
And the distortions of ingrown virginity.
Poems (1933)