W H Auden

W H Auden (1907-73), full name Wystan Hugh Auden, was a British poet. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his The Age of Anxiety (1947), and was known as a leading left-wing poet in his time.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Of course 'Behaviourism' works. So does torture.

- Behaviourism in A Certain World

• Pleasure is by no means an infallible guide, but it is the least fallible.

- The Dyer's Hand

• Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.

- The Dyer's Hand

• In the nightmare of the dark,

All the dogs of Europe bark,
And the living nations wait,
Each sequestered in its hate.
- In Memory of W B Yeats

• Evil is unspectacular and always human

And shares our bed and eats at our own table.
- Herman Melville

• No hero is mortal till he dies.

Mohammed Ayub Khan