What was the poem quoted in Tuesdays with Morrie?
The poem by Auden that was quoted (inaccurately) in the book Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom, and (accurately) in the television program based on the book (broadcast in December 1999), was “September 1, 1939.” The correct text of the quotation is “We must love one another or die.” The poem is printed in Auden’s Selected Poems.