I will love You forever," swears the poet. I find this easy to swear too. I will love You at 4:15 pm next Tuesday: is that still as easy?

About W. H. Auden

Portrait of W. H. Auden

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

Routine in an intelligent person is a sign of ambition.

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May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that "faith" is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

In order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character; that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own.

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In the end, the best we can hope for is that we've left our mark on the people who matter most to us, that we've loved them so well, a piece of us will forever remain a part of them.

—Jennifer Ryan in Her Renegade Rancher

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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

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I'll love you forever. Even when I shouldn't.

—Colleen Hoover in Confess

I know that grief, like regret, settles into our DNA and remains forever a part of us.

—Kristin Hannah in The Nightingale

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What would I have said to him if I'd known I would never see him again?

—Jennifer Niven in All the Bright Places

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