"A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us."
- W. H. [Wystan Hugh] Auden (1907 - 1973)

"Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality."
- W. H. [Wystan Hugh] Auden (1907 - 1973)

"Evil is unspectacular and always human and shares our bed and eats at our own table."
- W. H. [Wystan Hugh] Auden (1907 - 1973)

"Good can imagine Evil: but Evil cannot imagine Good."
- W. H. [Wystan Hugh] Auden (1907 - 1973)

"If there are any of you at the back who do not hear me, please don't raise your hands because I am also nearsighted."
- W. H. [Wystan Hugh] Auden (1907 - 1973)

"It's a sad fact about out culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can practicing it."
- W. H. [Wystan Hugh] Auden (1907 - 1973)

"Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value non but the horizontal one."
- W. H. [Wystan Hugh] Auden (1907 - 1973)

"Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind."
- W. H. [Wystan Hugh] Auden (1907 - 1973)