More quotes by W.H. Auden

"I will love you forever"swears the poet. I find this easy to swear too. "I will love you at 4:15 pm next Tuesday"- Is that still as easy?"
"The true men of action in our time those who transform the world are not the politicians and statesmen but the scientists. Unfortunately poetry cannot celebrate them because their deeds are concerned with things, not persons, and are therefore speechless. When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes."
"If equal affection cannot be,Let the more loving one be me."
"I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen."
"Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before."