Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
W H Auden quote Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
W H Auden quote Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
W H Auden quote Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
W H Auden quote All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
W H Auden quote 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.
W H Auden quote A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.
W H Auden quote A real book is not one that's read, but one that reads us.
W H Auden quote Biography
English poet and dramatist
