Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.
Quote by W. H. Auden
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Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.
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W. H. Auden Quotes
- When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
- Acts of injustice done, Between the setting and the rising sun, In history lie like bones, each one.
- Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
- Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.
- False enchantment can last a lifetime.
- 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.
- Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.
- 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.
- One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
- What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
Best Quotes
- It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it.
- One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
- Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
- I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books the other two are too small but they like the movies.
- In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.
- Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet - the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up!
- There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.
- The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
- There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
- In a gentle way, you can shake the world.