W. H. Auden Earth Quotations

We are all here on earth to help others.

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

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

We were put on this earth to make things.

Water is the soul of the Earth.

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

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.