AUDEN ON MARRIAGE.

AUDEN ON MARRIAGE. “Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting and significant than any romance, however passionate.” (from A CERTAIN WORLD, A Commonplace Book). Auden never had the opportunity to marry for love, although he did enter into a “marriage of convenience” with Erika Mann to provide her with British citizenship so she could escape the Nazis.