Top Ten W. H. Auden Quotes
The Top Ten
1 A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
2 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.
3 We must love one another or die.
4 We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
5 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.
6 How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me.
7 Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
8 Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
9 A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
10 In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag
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