Wystan Hugh Auden who signed his works W.
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“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.”
W. H. Auden
“Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator; but among those whom I love, I can: all of them can make me laugh.”
“Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.”
“In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.”
“Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.”
“He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.”
“A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.”
“The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me”
“Let mortals beware of wordsFor with words we lieCan speak peaceWhen we mean warBut song is trueLet music for peaceBe the paradigmFor peace means changeAt the right time”
“But in my arms till break of dayLet the living creature lie,Mortal, guilty, but to meThe entirely beautiful.”