Truth Quote by W. H. Auden — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs.”

“To choose what is difficult all ones days, as if it were easy, that is faith.”

“He was my North, my South, my East and West,”

“The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write, while very few men are taught to draw or paint or write music.”

“To choose what is difficult all ones days, as if it were easy, that is faith.”

“All the rest is silence”

“Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true.”

“Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.”

“He learned to live with the truth. Not to accept it, but to live with it. It was like living with an elephant. His room was tiny, and every morning he had to squeeze around the truth just to get to the bathroom. To reach the armoire to get a pair of underpants he had to crawl under the truth, praying it wouldn't choose that moment to sit on his face. At night, when he closed his eyes, he felt it looming above him.”

“When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nature is already offensive enough.”

“Sometimes things happen. Things happen even when you don't intend them to happen. Maybe at the beginning you had good intentions, or no intentions, or intentions you thought were harmless, but before you knew it things got out of control.”