Creative Quotations from W. H. Auden (1907-1973)

Creative Quotations from . . .

W. H. Auden
(1907-1973) born on Feb 21

English-US "poet, dramatist, editor". "He wrote passionately about social problems and post-WW I anxiety; won Pulitzer for verse "Age of Anxiety," 1948."

Your cameraman might enjoy himself, because my face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain."

"When I try to imagine a faultless love
Or the life to come, what I hear is the murmur
Of underground streams, what I see is a limestone landscape."

"[Music] can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell."

Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose.

You will be a poet because you will always be humiliated.

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Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"W. H. Auden," (H. Carpenter)"
R:	In Praise of Limestone
A:	"From 1951 poem "In Praise of Limestone," quoted in Kent Hieatt and William Clark eds "College Anthology of British and American Poetry," Allyn & Bacon 72"
N:	"At a Party.""
K:	"Remark remembered by poet Stephen Spender in Journals 1939 --1983 (1985), entry for 11 April 1979, reminiscing on his first meeting with Auden at Oxford."