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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...
Top 10 most used topics by W. H. Auden
Away 11 Never 10 I Love You 10 Love 10 Night 9 Time 8 World 8 Sky 8 Life 7 Children 7W. 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
Comments about W. H. Auden
Archieg1946: men of letters at work. —jacques barzun, w. h. auden, and lionel trilling.Allonfire: some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. w.h. auden
Eileenbernhard8: collected poems of w. h. auden [bcagofo]
Asiyamiya: i wanted to know but was only allowed to ask, i wanted light but was only allowed to burn. i demanded the ineffable but was only allowed to live. i complained, but nobody understood what i meant. - pär lagerkvist (trans. w.h. auden & l. sjöberg) sudek, broken madonna. 1945
Wsj: igor stravinsky’s 1951 hogarth-inspired opera, "the rake’s progress," surpasses mere pastiche by giving tropes of the genre a twist
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