Wystan Hugh Auden who signed his works W.
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“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.”
W. H. Auden
“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.”
“Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.”
“All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation”
“If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me”
“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.”
“Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores”
“I know nothing, except what everyone knows – if there when Graces dances, I should dance.”
“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.”
“Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.”