Quotes from book
The Age of Anxiety

Name: The Age of Anxiety
Author: W. H. Auden

W. H. Auden

The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue is a long poem in six parts by W. H. Auden, written mostly in a modern version of Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse.

“We would rather be ruined than changed
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die.”

W. H. Auden book The Age of Anxiety

Epilogue
The Age of Anxiety (1948)

“Let us then
Consider rather the incessant Now of
The traveler through time, his tired mind
Biased towards bigness since his body must
Exaggerate to exist, possessed by hope…”

W. H. Auden book The Age of Anxiety

Prologue
The Age of Anxiety (1948)

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