Choice of attention, to pay attention to this...... Quote by "W. H. Auden"

Choice of attention, to pay attention to this and ignore that, is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer.
— W. H. Auden

Tags: concentration

Other Quotes by "W. H. Auden"

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 Collected Poems

Tags: poetry, love, death

Learn from your dreams what you lack.
— W. H. Auden

Tags: learn, your, you, dreams

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
— W. H. Auden

Tags: unconscious, center, find, cannot, mind

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
— W. H. Auden

Tags: does, made, invisible, music

You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
— W. H. Auden

Tags: know, think, people, you