I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen.

- W. H. Auden

There's always another story. There's more than meets the eye.

- W. H. Auden

The lights must never go out, The music must always play

- W. H. Auden

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.

- W. H. Auden

No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.

- W. H. Auden

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

- W. H. Auden

Those who hate to go to bed fear death; those who hate to get up fear life.

- W. H. Auden

Nobody is ever sent to Hell: he or she insists on going there.

- W. H. Auden

All that we are not stares back at what we are.

- W. H. Auden