W. H. Auden Quotes

One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters.

W. H. Auden

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• Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Writing
  • American

• I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Pretty
  • Guitar
  • Gut

• Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Real
  • motivation
  • Obsession

• Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Nature
  • Universe
  • All Things

• I moved out at 18. I always studied classes and trained a lot, you know. I think nowadays is such a different time because there's so many channels promoting the celebrity aspect of things.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Time
  • Different
  • Think

• It's hard to juggle being a businessperson with being a creative person. You have to organize yourself - PR needs me for PR, and the licensing division needs me for licensing, the bridal people need me for bridal.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Yourself
  • Creative

• Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Love
  • Democracy
  • For Him

• I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • True
  • Being
  • Often

• Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Fear
  • Perfection
  • No Fear

• I feel like if you enjoyed the 119 hours that precede the finale of 'Lost,' is that whole experience ruined by the fact that you might not agree with everything that we did in the finale? I would hope not! I would hope that you would appreciate the fact that you were entertained for 119 hours even if you didn't love the finale.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Hope

• Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • Hurt

• You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • Mind
  • Positive
  • Door

• It's interesting to see how some of the womenswear designers that we have long worked with at Net-A-Porter are developing menswear collections - Christopher Kane, Jonathan Saunders and Richard Nicoll.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Long
  • Interesting
  • See

• It's just really hard to work and get better, building and planning for the future with the new Monte Carlo and keeping the race team intact and keeping them healthy.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Work
  • Future
  • Team

• I'm not the most charismatic, maybe emotional, fun-packed individual on the golf course; I get that.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Fun
  • Emotional
  • Golf

• I don't really know that much about love, it turns out.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • Know
  • Really

• For me, I like to be a little bit tomboy but still look like a lady. Pretty tough. Or really, really, really pretty.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Pretty
  • Tough
  • Still

• The first song that I remember writing in its entirety was when I was 9 years old. I wrote it on a bus, on a field trip. It was called 'Mystery Man,' and in retrospect, it was the beginning of my exploration of what it was like to have a man in your life, because I didn't.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Remember

• The people with the strong, brave exteriors are just as weak and vulnerable as the rest of us. And of course they never admit to their childish practices, their moments of weakness or absurdity, and then the rest of us think that’s how it should be.

  

  Alexander McCall Smith
  • People
  • Strong
  • Moments

• I realized what Led Zeppelin was about around the end of our first U.S. tour. We started off not even on the bill in Denver, and by the time we got to New York we were second to Iron Butterfly, and they didn't want to go on!

  

  Robert Plant Led Zeppelin
  • Time
  • Butterfly

• I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.

  

  Jean M. Auel
  • Science

• Healthy marriages are the ones between a man and a woman because they can have a healthy family, and they can raise children in a way that's best for their future, not only socially but psychologically, economically, from a health perspective.

  

  Bill Flores
  • Children
  • Family
  • Future

• I do sincerely trust that the benediction that is always awaiting me in my garden may by degrees be more deserved, and that I may grow in grace, and patience, and cheerfulness, just like the happy flowers I so much love.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Love
  • Trust
  • Grace

• One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters.

  

  W. H. Auden