W. H. Auden

"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."

"A god who is both self-sufficient and content to remain so could not interest us enough to raise the question of his existence."

"When I consider others I can easily believe that their bodies express their personalities and that the two are inseparable. But it is impossible for me not to feel that my body is other than I, that I…"

"When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won."

"Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity. Of all novelists in any country, Trollope best understands the role of money. Compared with him even Balzac is a romantic."

"Most people are even less original in their dreaming than in their waking life; their dreams are more monotonous than their thoughts and oddly enough, more literary."

"W. H. Auden, The Art of Poetry No. 17" by Michael Newman in Paris Review"

"The mystics themselves do not seem to have believed their physical and mental sufferings to be a sign of grace, but it is unfortunate that it is precisely physical manifestations which appeal most to …"