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W. H. Auden Quotes about Death

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He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

W. H. Auden
Love, Death, Song
"Funeral Blues" l. 9 (1936)

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

W. H. Auden
Death, Men, Gmos
W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.148, DEBOLS!LLO

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

W. H. Auden
Death, War, Men
Shield of Achilles (1955) "Epitaph for the Unknown Soldier"

Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave Proves the child ephemeral

W. H. Auden
Death, Children, Thoughtful
'Another Time' (1940) no. 18, p. 43

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

W. H. Auden
Death, Philosophical, Sound

One rational voice is dumb: over a grave The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved. Sad is Eros, builder of cities, And weeping anarchic Aphrodite.

W. H. Auden
Death, Cities, Voice
"In Memory of Sigmund Freud" l. 109 (1939)

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