W. H. Auden

I just finished Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957, and these are the quotes that caught my attention:

from "1929":

Happy only to find a home, a place
Where no tax is levied for being there.

from "First Things First":

Woken, I lay in the arms of my own warmth and listened
To a storm enjoying its storminess in the winter dark

and from "A Permanent Way":

And what could be greater fun,
Once one has chosen and paid,
Than the inexpensive delight
Of a choice one might have made?

(Finished both my bedtime books last night—I was so thrilled! Next up in poetry, for a little light bedtime reading, Coleridge. Look later for a review of Writers on Writing, which was a delightful surprise.)