The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
W. H. Auden
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.
W. H. Auden
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
W. H. Auden
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
W. H. Auden
The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
W. H. Auden
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
W. H. Auden
To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
W. H. Auden
We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.
W. H. Auden
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
W. H. Auden
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
W. H. Auden
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.
W. H. Auden
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.
W. H. Auden
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.
W. H. Auden
You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.
W. H. Auden
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