Letters from Iceland Quotes

“Lovers have lived so long with giants and elves, they won't believe again in their own size.”
― W.H. Auden, Letters from Iceland

“Part came from Lane, and part from D.H. Lawrence;
Gide, though I didn't know it then, gave part.
They taught me to express my deep abhorrence
If I caught anyone preferring Art
To Life and Love and being Pure-in-heart.
I lived with crooks but seldom was molested;
The Pure-in-heart can never be arrested.”
― W.H. Auden, Letters from Iceland