To make one, there must be two. Author: W.H. Auden Copy Quote More from W.H. Auden “A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.” “Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, a…” “A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue.” “My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.”