It was an experiment, and I think a successful one, in communal living. It worked largely because Auden ran it; he was exceptionally adept at getting the necessary money out of us when it was due.

-Bowles, Paul Frederick
  On an artist's house in NewYork. Without Stopping:  An Autobiography, ch.12.

He's very popular among his mates. I think I'm Auden, he thinks he'sYeats.

-Ewart, Gavin Buchanan
  'Seamus Heaney'.

The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.

-Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair
  The Road to Wigan Pier, ch.11.