W. H. Auden Earth Quotations

We were put on this earth to make things.

We were put on this Earth to help others. Why others were put here is beyond me.

Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry.

We are all here on earth to help others.

Moreover, if great men are the only hope of the Evolutionary Process, they are morally bound to rule over the masses for their own good -- we are all here on earth to help others: what on earth the others are here for, I don't know -- and the masses have no right whatsoever to resist them.

Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.

Water is the soul of the Earth.