A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime. - W. H. Auden. View more images...

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. - W. H. Auden. View more images...

When I look back at the three or four choices in my life which have been decisive, I find that, at the time I made them, I had very little sense of the seriousness of what I was doing and only later did I discover what had seemed an unimportant brook - W. H. Auden. View more images...

We must love one another or die. - W. H. Auden. View more images...

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. - W. H. Auden. View more images...

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. - W. H. Auden. View more images...

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be. - W. H. Auden. View more images...