W. H. Auden

Who is W. H. Auden

W. H. Auden Poems

• Who's Who
  A shilling life will give you all the facts:
  How Father beat him, how he ran away,
  What were the struggles of his youth, what acts
  Made him the greatest figure of his day;...
• Voltaire At Ferney
  Almost happy now, he looked at his estate.
  An exile making watches glanced up as he passed,
  And went on working; where a hospital was rising fast
  A joiner touched his cap; an agent came to tell...
• Three Short Poems
  “The underground roads
  Are, as the dead prefer them,
  Always tortuous.”
  ...
• The Unknown Citizen
  (To JS/07/M/378/ This Marble Monument
  Is Erected by the State)
  
  He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be...
• The Two
  You are the town and we are the clock.
  We are the guardians of the gate in the rock.
  The Two.
  On your left and on your right...

W. H. Auden Quotes

• What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
• Acts of injustice done, Between the setting and the rising sun, In history lie like bones, each one.
• Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can all of them make me laugh.
• Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
• Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from luther untill noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occured at linz what huge imago made a psychopathic god. i and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return.

Comments about W. H. Auden

• Jacodypress: “murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society must take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness.” w. h. auden
• Casa_de_cadejo: "out on the lawn i lie in bed, vega conspicuous overhead in the windless nights of june, as congregated leaves complete their day's activity; my feet point to the rising moon. lucky, this point in time and space is chosen as my working-place" - w. h. auden
• M_b_a: "if equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me." —w. h. auden, "the more loving one"
• Veronicagmarti2: "you need not see what someone is doing to know if it is his vocation, you have only to watch his eyes...“ — w.h. auden.
• Crimaiota: "evil is always unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed, and eats at our table."（w.h. auden）（s1e12）