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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

W. H. Auden
Age: 66 †
Born: 1907
Born: February 21
Died: 1973
Died: September 28
Author
Composer
Essayist
Librettist
Literary Critic
Literary Historian
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
University Teacher
Writer
Jórvík
Wystan Hugh Auden
Wystan Auden
Wystan H Auden
W. H. Wystan Hugh Auden
Feels
Scientist
Like
Room
Rooms
Curate
Mistake
Strayed
Full
Shabby
Company
Dukes
Science
Scientists
Feel
Drawing

More quotes by W. H. Auden

Image
A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
W. H. Auden
Image
Machines are beneficial to the degree that they eliminate the need for labor, harmful to the degree that they eliminate the need for skill.
W. H. Auden
Image
Cats can be very funny, and have the oddest ways of showing they're glad to see you.
W. H. Auden
Image
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
W. H. Auden
Image
Life is a picnic on a precipice.
W. H. Auden
Image
Few can remember clearly when innocence came to a sudden end, the moment at which we ask for the first time: Am I loved?
W. H. Auden
Image
Let me see what I wrote so I know what I think
W. H. Auden
Image
Cathedrals, luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone.
W. H. Auden
Image
Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.
W. H. Auden
Image
Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.
W. H. Auden
Image
So long as we think of it objectively, time is Fate or Chance, the factor in our lives for which we are not responsible, and about which we can do nothing but when we begin to think of it subjectively, we feel responsible for our time, and the notion of punctuality arises.
W. H. Auden
Image
Few people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate.
W. H. Auden
Image
About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters.
W. H. Auden
Image
One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.
W. H. Auden
Image
Human beings are, necessarily, actors who...can be divided...into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not.
W. H. Auden
Image
What living occasion can, Be just to the absent?
W. H. Auden
Image
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.
W. H. Auden
Image
You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.
W. H. Auden
Image
One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters.
W. H. Auden
Image
Criticism should be a casual conversation.
W. H. Auden