There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, 'Did you get an erection?' If the answer is 'Yes' from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic.
W H Auden quote We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
W H Auden quote When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.
W H Auden quote You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at.
W H Auden quote You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.
W H Auden quote Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say: Sanctity is the state about which theology has nothing to say.
W H Auden quote It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
W H Auden quote Learn from your dreams what you lack.
W H Auden quote Biography
English poet and dramatist
