Nothing I wrote in the thirties saved one Jew from Auschwitz. Let the poet be political if he wants to be, but the only person who's going to profit from it is himself.


As quoted in: Giving it away: the memoirs of an uncivil servant (Secker & Warburg, 1986) by Charles Osborne, p. 199

W. H. Auden Quotes

Nothing I wrote in the thirties saved one Jew from Auschwitz. Let the poet be political if he wants to be, but the only person who's going to profit...

Nothing I wrote in the thirties saved one Jew from Auschwitz. Let the poet be political if he wants to be, but the only person who's going to profit...

Nothing I wrote in the thirties saved one Jew from Auschwitz. Let the poet be political if he wants to be, but the only person who's going to profit...

Nothing I wrote in the thirties saved one Jew from Auschwitz. Let the poet be political if he wants to be, but the only person who's going to profit...