I just try to put the thing out and hope somebody will read it. Someone says: 'Whom do you write for?' I reply: 'Do you read me?' If they say 'Yes,' I say, 'Do you like it?' If they say 'No,' then I say, 'I don't write for you.'
W. H. AudenEvery man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.
W. H. Auden'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
W. H. AudenWe are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.
W. H. Auden