Quotes by W.H. Auden, Collected Poems
"Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot readThe hunter's waking thoughts."
"Base words are uttered only by the baseAnd can for such at once be understood;But noble platitudes — ah, there's a caseWhere the most careful scrutiny is neededTo tell a voice that's genuinely goodFrom one that's base but merely has succeeded."
"What living occasion can,Be just to the absent?"
"I know nothing, except what everyone knows - if there when Grace dances, I should dance."
"Evil is unspectacular and always human,And shares our bed and eats at our own table ...."