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

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

“All the rest is silence”

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

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

“Truth, like love and sleep, resents approaches that are too intense.”

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

“I had a dove and the sweet dove died;”

“If my like for you was a football crowd, you’d be deaf ’cause of the roar. And if my like for you was a boxer, there’d be a dead guy lying on the floor. And if my like for you was sugar, you’d lose your teeth before you were twenty. And if my like for you was money, let’s just say you’d be spending plenty.”

“I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.”

“In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.”

“You see demons in the eyes of the world, and the world sees bottomless pit in yours.”

“come back so i can say yes this time do it again now that i know what to call what you did”