Fausto Tiemann

“A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.”
― W.H. Auden

“Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.”
― W.H. Auden, New Year Letter

“When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.”
― W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays

“Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation.”
― W.H. Auden