More quotes by W. H. Auden
To save your world you asked this man to die;
Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
Let us honor if we can
The vertical man
Though we value none
But the horizontal one.
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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.
Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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