W. H. Auden

“Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.”

“We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.”

“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.”

“Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.”

“Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.”

“Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.”

“Poetry makes nothing happen.”

“A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.”

“To be free is to be responsible.”

“All I have is a voice to undo the folded lie.”

“The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists.”