Wystan Hugh Auden who signed his works W.
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“I know nothing, except what everyone knows – if there when Graces dances, I should dance.”
W. H. Auden
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.”
“Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores”
“All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation”
“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.”
“The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected: the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition”