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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)
nybooks: “Auden’s dialectic—the puckish, unruly youth versus the adult diagnostician—was there from the start.” —Nick Laird
abecedebeby: Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say
-W.H. Auden
eveieweevie1: If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. —W.H. Auden
TrainingMindful: “We must love one another or die.” ~ W. H. Auden
nathandueck: "Evil is unspectacular and always human
with an AR-15"
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jim_colahan: Oh man, I went to the library today. Found 3, Alan Hollinghurst novels& W.H. Auden poetry and writings on order,E.B. white too. So there is that to read. Thanks for your help. I love being in our community library. It is a bastion of cultural activity.
TanBerkAki: Sheila Hancock - 'Refugee Blues' by W H Auden for Holocaust Memorial Day...
CryptoCesar26: A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue.
-W.H. Auden
GirlFacts911: If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. —W.H. Auden
LisaChristiePhD: Art is our chief means for breaking bread with the dead. ~W.H. Auden
SpiesVespers: IT’S TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS! POETS AND POETRY EDITION!
Alexander Vassiliev's Haunted Wood and Mary Gaitskill's Bad Behavior use same W H Auden epigraph, poem September 1, 1939.
BizMarketplace: Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
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7_eead: Auden can be boring, and he can be thrilling, but it nearly always feels like he is talking to you, an individual sitting beside him at high table or at a bus stop.
isomorphisms: The Complete Poems Of C.p.cavafy : Auden,w.h.
jeannemarieM3: Auden’s Dialectic
Malcolm_Ocean: The Labyrinth by W.H. Auden
trixieedgewood: Stop All The Clocks
by W.H. Auden
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
checkD20: "He was my North, my South, my East and West, my working week and my Sunday rest." - W.H. Auden, "Stop All the Clocks"
BelindaGreb: Thousands have lived without love-not one without water. W. H. Auden
ThosPalmer: Birthday/Christmas present idea for yours truly -- then again, it's about $40 online and I might spring for it.
philosophersmag: W. H. Auden - The Dirtiest Man I Ever Liked
SpiesVespers: IT’S TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS! POETS AND POETRY EDITION!
OSS and CIA talent spotter at Yale, Norman Holmes Pearson, is also remembered for "Poets of the English Language" anthologies he edited with W. H. Auden.
QuotationsPod: NEW EPISODE!
Poetry time again! This time it's a two-parter on W.H. Auden's September 1, 1939.
Join me, won't you?
nybooks: “Astonishingly fluent, Auden could write poems of immense power that take their subject matter head-on. When it came to love poems, more circumspection was needed.” —Nick Laird
FordyMUFC1LOVE: If I Could Tell You by W.H. Auden
Archivo48: Auden’s Dialectic
arminthurnher: Wort zum Sonntag: »People don’t understand that it’s possible to believe in a thing and ridicule it at the same time….« (W. H. Auden)
Qatildildar12: Auden’s Dialectic | Nick Laird | The New York Review of Books such a pleasure to read his poems !
skydog811: Auden’s Dialectic | Nick Laird
mais_fraij: "How should we like it were stars to burn
With a passion for us we could not return?
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me."
~ W.H. Auden
nybooks: Nick Laird on every poem W.H. Auden published, submitted for publication, or sent to friends for “posthumous” publication
ericesheng: 'Housman was perfectly right. / Our world rapidly worsens.' —W. H. Auden
melinda_esen: “Nothing can save us that is possible:
We who must die demand a miracle.”
w. h. auden
kateheartfield: "I was very pleased to hear from you, and glad to feel that you were not bored." -- to W.H. Auden, June 7, 1955
ecowaterJax: "Thousands have lived without love, not one without water."
-W. H. Auden
louwmartin8: If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. —W.H. Auden
Shelby_Foote_Q: I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.
– W. H. Auden
_manishkapoor: “Auden can be boring, and he can be thrilling, but it nearly always feels like he is talking to you, an individual sitting beside him at high table or at a bus stop. He doesn’t present himself as one of the great visionary pioneers but as a gossipy equal,
rico_be_wildin: “We are lived by powers we pretend to understand.”
- W.H. Auden
Moonlit_Devious: In a good dish we encounter all of the orders of creation: mineral, plant, animal, human, and, perhaps, divine.
(...) the sacred meal lies at the heart of so many religious traditions, and perhaps none more than Christianity, which, as W.H. Auden noted, preaches an edible God.
iMoGalore: Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
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CGardne05759171: We would rather be ruined than change. We would rather die in dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.
--W. H. Auden
FrostPumps: "Thousands have lived without love, not one without water." ~ W. H. Auden
larryagross: Kafka is the author who comes nearest to bearing the same kind of relation to our age, as Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe bore to theirs.
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fraskyfizzle: Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
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MorphysPaul: 'Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful,
but because it is his.
If it were his beauty that enthralled him,
he would be set free in a few years by its fading.'
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Germany
tsykhchyba: "O let not Time deceive you / You cannot conquer Time"
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friedrich_san: « What a joy to know even when we can’t see you or hear you, that you are around » W. H. Auden, « Address to the Beasts » in Thank You, Fog : Last Poems
ColonieReformed: Thought for Today
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
~ W.H. Auden
michori_raphael: Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
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hekint: Franz Kafka (1883–1924) was one of the most important authors of the 20th century. W.H. Auden called him “a modern Dante.” His father was a domineering bully, which may explain his lifelong feelings of inferiority, weakness, and helplessness.
confusedgeek: Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
W.H. Auden
British-American poet
HarrisonSealts: “Poetry is the clear expression of mixed feelings.”
- W.H. Auden, 1941
HarrisonSealts: “The Auden effect was an odd blend of the diagnostic and the atmospheric, with the latter somehow complicating the formeren.”
- Review of W.H. Auden, Complete Works, London Review of Books, 2 March
columbus_darryl: Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.W.H. Auden
iamwoleojo: Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
~W.H. Auden British - American poet
APIaviation: "Thousands have lived without love, not one without water." - W. H. Auden It's a day to educate, celebrate, reflect, and make a difference to water management in the world. Wishing you Happy World Water Day!
Rytrackf: Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition. W.H. Auden
GLIN_WNY: “Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.” — W. H. Auden
yoggysatya: "Thousands have lived without love, not one without water."
W.H. Auden
IMAgovTT: “Thousands have lived without love, not one without water” – W. H. Auden
Celebrating World Water Day under the theme, Accelerating Change.
Water affects us all and we all need to take action!
Photo by UNICEF (bottom right)
jalilojaya: Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
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Poso
jacodypress: W. H. Auden said, “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.”
ghostlyfearz: “he was my north, my south, my east and west, my working week & my sunday rest.”
— stop all the clocks, w.h auden
Disembe: Reminds me of W.H Auden...
"Once we had a country and we thought it fair,
Look in the atlas and you'll find it there:
We cannot go there now, my dear, we cannot go there now".
contentmo: Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
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hopeospical: To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith. -W. H. Auden
dcarlabrams: Auden’s Dialectic
Mr_Guantai: "I and the public know what all schoolchildren learn, those to whom evil is done, do evil in return." W. H. Auden.
AllOnFire: Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
W.H. Auden
lisathecure: "Thousands have lived without love, not one without water."
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SarahElizaBeez: “We would rather be ruined than changed
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die.”
~ W H Auden, The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue
dbc___: “I cannot be quite sure what I know, because words can not verify themselves.” -- W.H. Auden
fmsoreta: Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
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fraveris: “Every man carries with him through life a mirror,..”
~ W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand
Andrew James Campbell
welfordwrites: The trouble with dreams, of course, is that other people’s are so boring. W H Auden
jamiembrixton: Playing about with Midjourney. We asked it create images of W. H. Auden as a terrier.
MilanBrahmbha11: selective breeding, extermination of the physically and mentally unfit, absolute obedience to its Director, and a large slave class kept of out sight in cellars."
W.H. Auden, "The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays." (1962) 2/2
ojalart: “I don’t think good work ever makes one cry … If one sees King Lear, one doesn’t cry. One doesn’t have to.” —W. H. Auden
astromarwan: It was a lesson for me and now I shall carry the tools that I've acquired to elucidate to myself the chaos that I may face in the near future.
To quote W. H. Auden:
"Thousands have lived without love, not one without water."
The Mind always Wins.
dzgrizzle: “The most important truths are likely to be those which society at that time least wants to hear.” ~ W H Auden, pictured with Christopher Isherwood
KungFuShoesSays: "We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know." W. H. Auden
welfordwrites: No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. W H Auden
vs_publisher: Interviewer - I wondered which living writer you would say has served as the prime protector of the integrity of our English tongue . . . ?
W.H. Auden - Why, me, of course!
The Art of Poetry No. 17
parisreview: “I don’t think good work ever makes one cry … If one sees King Lear, one doesn’t cry. One doesn’t have to.” —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
OpiyoAg24412893: May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?,W. H. Auden,Faith, God, Human ,
kenshou08301999: If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. —W.H. Auden
malaisebot: “Beauty, midnight, vision dies:
Let the winds of dawn that blow
Softly round your dreaming head
Such a day of welcome show
Eye and knocking heart may bless,
Find the mortal world enough;”
- Lullaby by W.H. Auden
jjrwass: We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
W. H. Auden
US (English-born) critic & poet (1907 - 1973)
commodore_corn: The modern Stoic knows that the surest way to discipline passion is to discipline time: decide what you want or ought to do during the day, then always do it exactly the same moment every day, and passion will give you no trouble.
- W. H. Auden
ryanjpemberton: Can poets (can men in television)
Be saved? It is not easy
To believe in unknowable justice
Or pray in the name of a love
Whose name one’s forgotten.
–WH Auden
"All who would presume to act on behalf of Truth or Justice are only working in approximations."
BrokenShadows75: A poet is,
before anything else,
a person who is passionately in love with language.
W.H. Auden
BrokenShadows75: Evil is unspectacular and always human
And shares our bed and eats at our own table.
W.H. Auden
DurhamWASP: "My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humoured; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth."
W. H. Auden