Famous quotes by W. H. Auden:
"In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag."
"I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street."
"A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep"
"If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me"
"Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good"
"Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods."
"Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about."
"Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading."
"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator; but among those whom I love, I can: all of them can make me laugh."
"He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong."