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

“Base words are uttered only by the base”

“SEPTEMBER 1, 1939”

“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.”

“Say this city has ten million souls,”

““If equal affection cannot be,”

“Defenceless under the night”

“Nature never did betray”

“The season was waning fast”

“At school some learning by heart was compulsory, though not irksome. But this intake was out-distanced many times, as it always is among people who need poetry, by a private anthology, both of those automatically absorbed and of poems consciously chosen and memorized as though one were stocking up for a desert island or for a stretch of solitary.”

“Lines Written In Early Spring”

“Safety isn't always safe. You can find one on every gun.”

“У меня в Москве — купола горят!”