If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

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About W. H. Auden

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Wystan Hugh Auden ( WIST-ən HYOO AWD-ən; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was a British-American poet. Auden's poetry is noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form, and content. Some of his best known poems...

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Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.

To save your world you asked this man to die.

A poet's hope: to be,
like some valley cheese,
local, but prized elsewhere.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

One cannot review a bad book without showing off.

More quotations tagged with “affection”

It is funny how you do not miss affection until it is given, but once it is, it can never be enough; you would drown in it if possible.

—Libba Bray in The Sweet Far Thing

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Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.

We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.

—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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If you have to convince someone to stay with you, then they have already left.

—Shannon L. Alder

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I lived in the midst of an affectionate, charming family, and I am sure that there is no greater obstacle to a person who is just beginning to write.

—Katharine Butler Hathaway

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