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alykhansatchu: The lights must never go out, The music must always play September 1, 1939 W. H. Auden
EmirSteinCenter: Epitaph on a Tyrant
W. H. Auden’s 6-line poem gives us a window into the mind of tyrants. Listen to this short poem, and think of what you can do to make the world a better place. Share with your friends.
The Miracle of Kindness
LeoheavenH: “ Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say. “
—W.H. Auden
ALYSSA FOR FORZAPHASE2
alykhansatchu: The lights must never go out, The music must always play September 1, 1939 W. H. Auden
huskeydogg: We are all here on earth to help others. What on earth the others are here for I don't know. - W. H. Auden
Samantharhill: "When there are so many we shall have to mourn,
when grief has been made so public, and exposed
to the critique of a whole epoch
the frailty of our conscience and anguish,
of whom shall we speak? For every day they die
among us . . . "
— W.H. Auden
kanavguglani1: “Truth, like love and sleep, resents
Approaches that are too intense.”
-W.H Auden
akbarnasirkhan: "Propaganda is a monologue that is not looking for an answer, but an echo."
W.H. Auden
ttiswattis: W.H. Auden (dichter)
We are all here on earth to help others. What on earth the others are here for, I don't know.
contentmo: ""Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about."
- W.H. Auden"
alykhansatchu: Giacometti 'Walking Man'
contentmo: ""Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about."
- W.H. Auden"
failed_ascetic: But once in a while the odd thing happens, Once in a while the dream comes true, And the whole pattern of life is altered, Once in a while the moon turns blue.
- W.H. Auden
Samantharhill: "The world needs a wash and a week's rest."
― W.H. Auden
UnderAntares: The genius of W.H. Auden is on full display in this gem of a sonnet.
JesCastilla: "The world needs a wash and a week's rest."
W. H. Auden
NedHartley: It’s like the BBC have taken that “Stop all the clocks” W H Auden poem literally.
PoetNotRockStar: “A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.”
— W. H. Auden
CrystalChampers: W H Auden: listen, lads, I've got the best opening line EVER but I need something that rhymes with telephone or it's a non-starter. Any ideas?
Mate: juicy bone?
W H Auden:...
W H Auden: I'll make it work
MelanieABonnet: “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
Gloretadams: God may reduce you
on Judgement Day
to tears of shame,
reciting by heart
the poems you would
have written, had
your life been good.
—W. H. Auden
contentmo: ""Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about."
- W.H. Auden"
Atticist: Only the ‘Hitlers of the world’ work at night; no honest artist does.
—W.H. Auden
_ladyds: “But once in a while the odd thing happens,
Once in a while the dream comes true,
And the whole pattern of life is altered,
Once in a while the moon turns blue.”
― W.H. Auden
besidetheriver: ' 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
RionNile: Random Thoughts....
Having more money doesn't make you happier. I have 50 million dollars, but I'm just as happy as when I had 48 million.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger.
We are here on earth to do good unto others. What the others are here for, I have no idea.
- W. H. Auden
HomairaLatif: Time will say nothing but I told you so,
Time only knows the price we have to pay;
If I could tell you I would let you know.
...W H Auden.
UnderAntares: Let the florid music praise;
The flute and the trumpet,
Beauty’s conquest of your face:
In that land of fresh and bone,
Where from citadels on high
Her imperial standards fly,
Let the hot sun
Shine on, shine on.
-W.H.Auden
FYM2022G: Fate succumbs
Many a species; one alone
Jeopardizes itself."
W. H. AUDEN
Matteo60392017: "To choose what is difficult all ones days, as if it were easy, that is faith."
-W. H. Auden
sun07finger: “In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.” -W. H. Auden
ACTUALLY AMANDALYSSA
zidrees560: "Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education."
-W. H. Auden
Tunnelbreeze: Christopher Isherwood and W H Auden prepare to leave London in 1938 to report on the war with Japan. Colourised by
manfromroto: Anyone out there remember the great Noah Greenberg, the American choral conductor & founder of the New York Pro Musica, who was born on April 9, 1919?
W. H. Auden wrote of him, in regard to having successfully revived interest in medieval,.....
Moltivar: “Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.”
-W. H. Auden
shiinosuke: Leap Before You Look
W.H.Auden
The sense of danger must not disappear:
The way is certainly both short and steep
However gradual it looks from here;
Look if you like, but you will have to leap.
SamiaHassan23: RIP Prince Philip
Watch "W.H. Auden Funeral Blues - BBC's Best Version on You Tube" on YouTube
YuriyKostyuche1: “They were right, my dear, all those voices were right
And still are; this land is not the sweet home that it looks…”
"In Praise of Limestone", W. H. Auden, 1948
CirclePlumbing1: “Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.” — W. H. Auden
nybooks: W.H. Auden: “To the youth I then was, uncertain of himself, gauche, shy, and, therefore, brash, Maurice Bowra embodied all those qualities, social poise, elegance, wit, worldliness, which I most longed to possess and despaired of ever possessing.”
PifflePatter: 'Stop Eastenders, cut off the One Show, Prevent Osmon's Pointless banter, Alexander Armstrong has to go.
Silence the Master Chefs, Graham Norton's scripted jokes probably won't be missed, by then, anyway, we'll all be half pissed.'
(W.H. Auden, 1936)
92Y: W.H. Auden reads "Their Lonely Betters" and many other poems, in 1955. Listen:
CESteinfeld: Taking the advice of Joseph Brodsky reading poetry for a while - Going to start with Robert Frost, Rumi, and W.H. Auden
contentmo: ""Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about."
- W.H. Auden"
Samantharhill: "It was a spring day, a day for a lay, when the air . . . "
W. H. Auden's dirty poem:
Samantharhill: "The deepest craving of man is not to suffer but to do as he pleases."
W.H. Auden to Hannah Arendt
_theamena: The More Loving One
W. H. Auden
rinisanchi: "Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow."
- W.H. Auden
RamonSomoza1: A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. W.H. Auden
drakemotel: Unearthed from the Review's limestone-walled archives, W.H. Auden in 1967 on the Oxford classics scholar who outmaneuvered CS Lewis and once remarked, "Buggers can't be choosers." (it's free for the day)
weatherStorey: Political history is far too criminal a subject to be a fit thing to
teach children.
-- W. H. Auden
adancabdulle: September 1, 1939 by W H Auden
SymbolSpeak: Language can be fun & beautiful. Can you write a poem using symbols? Screenshot your poem in Symbol-It & submit it to our contest!
KingsMagnumOpus: Admirer as I think I am
Of stars that do not give a damn,
I cannot, now I see them, say
I missed one terribly all day
Were all stars to disappear or die,
I should learn to look at an empty sky
And feel its total dark sublime,
Though this might take me a little time
W. H. Auden
RBellikoff: "For poetry makes nothing happen. . ."
- W.H. Auden, "In Memory of W. B. Yeats"
McConnell also makes nothing happen.
"He urged the C.E.O.s of major companies to spend a day with him in Washington to “see how getting nothing done is done.”
trixieedgewood: Epitaph on a Tyrant
W. H. Auden - 1907-1973
Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after,
And the poetry he invented was easy to understand;
He knew human folly like the back of his hand,
And was greatly interested in armies and fleets;...
trevorw1953: The Messy Genius of W. H. Auden
A disheveled poet crafted verse of exquisite order.
BelindaGreb: Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.–W. H. Auden
lalatinamerican: Funeral Blues by W.H. Auden
Jeetstorms: 1. So I have a few quick thoughts on Duterte, The Jetsons, Nabokov's 'Pale Fire', W. H. Auden & Quebec's maple syrup cartel
francjonsn: Clasics in Ñspel: REFUGEE BLUES, by W.H. Auden
shahdtt: “But once in a while the odd thing happens,
Once in a while the dream comes true,
And the whole pattern of life is altered,
Once in a while the moon turns blue.”
― 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
m__dutt: " ..Dance, dance, for the figure is easy,
The tune is catching and will not stop;
Dance till the stars come down from the rafters;
Dance, dance, dance till you drop...."
W.H. Auden, Death's Echo
painting: Salvatore Dali, Venus and Sailor
seventydys: the sane who know
W.H. Auden, from ‘The Age of Anxiety’
hamis_jummah: “All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation”
W. H. AUDEN
ecosebas: "There is no such thing as the State
And no one exists alone;
Hunger allows no choice
To the citizen or the police;
We must love one another or die".
W. H. Auden
September 1, 1939
contentmo: ""Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about."
- W.H. Auden"
ThePoetryCabin: Jill Krementz Photo Journal: Celebrating National Poetry Month
Award-winning photographer Jill Krementz made these wonderful images of 60 notable poets – from W. H. Auden in 1967, to Mary Oliver in 2013.
contentmo: ""Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about."
- W.H. Auden"
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.”
ihmd_99: The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;
For nothing now can ever come to any good.
W H Auden
CultivatingGems: "Hundreds may believe, but each has to believe by himself."
(W. H. Auden)
judyrudin: In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure...
~W.H. Auden, "Musee des Beaux Arts"
welfordwrites: Lady, Weeping at the Crossroads, a poem by W H Auden. There is much hidden meaning in this poem, relating to myth and Freudian analysis. Click the link!
3367_n: “But once in a while the odd thing happens,Once in a while the dream comes trueAnd the whole pattern of life is altered Once in a while the moon turns blue.”
― W.H. Auden
maranamax: To the vanity of our calling: make intercession
For the treason of all clerks.
At the Grave of Henry James
by W.H. Auden
alykhansatchu: 08-MAR-2021 :: The lights must never go out, The music must always play September 1, 1939 W. H. Auden
The World is pirouetting on the pinhead of the Yield of the US 10 YR
ajaymusings: There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love.
- W.H. Auden
francjonsn: About Poets: W.H. AUDEN
susanoha: 4/7/1770 W Wordsworth b. In my 1st year teaching--in h.s. larger than my hometown--I heard WH Auden explain why teachers shouldnt teach Wordsworth's "Daffodil"-- b/c kids needed to know that poetry was ALIVE. Young poets visited classrooms of teachers who participated. Glorious.
0starkafterdark: (9) W. H. AUDEN
"Lay your sleeping head, my love,
Human on my faithless arm...
But in my arms till break of day
Let the living creature lie,
Mortal, guilty, but to me
The entirely beautiful".
Also the funeral eulogy from Four Weddings and a Funeral
OptimistCreed: In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. -W. H. Auden
Nika_Crusher: If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me.
W. H. Auden
dbrendanjohnson: New reflection drawing on Francis, Fred Moten, James Baldwin, and W.H. Auden, and tackling questions of love, justice, and race.
Is Hannah Arendt right that "In politics, love is a stranger"?
Especially hard in light of ongoing racial violence and Derek Chauvin's trial in Mpls
alykhansatchu: Faces along the bar
Cling to their average day:
The lights must never go out,
The music must always play,
September 1, 1939 W. H. Auden
contentmo: ""Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about."
- W.H. Auden"
Lwa0_9: “But once in a while the odd thing happens,
Once in a while the dream comes true,
And the whole pattern of life is altered,
Once in a while the moon turns blue.”
― W.H. Auden
Hadeelqh_: “But once in a while the odd thing happens,
Once in a while the dream comes true,
And the whole pattern of life is altered,
Once in a while the moon turns blue.”
― W.H. Auden
ThePoetryCabin: Jill Krementz Photo Journal: Celebrating National Poetry Month
Award-winning photographer Jill Krementz made these wonderful images of 60 notable poets – from W. H. Auden in 1967, to Mary Oliver in 2013.
SofiaJoubert: *
There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love.
- W.H. Auden
sabfatale: "We are being lived by powers we pretend to understand." - W.H. Auden
AApolaki: “She was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.”
By W. H. Auden, Funeral Blues
JohnAsplund1: My favorite is the W.H. Auden classic, “Funeral Blues”
Cox_and_Budge: New Writing 3 (Spring 1937), includes the first printing of W H Auden's poem "Lay your sleeping head, my love, / Human on my faithless arm;"
zidrees560: "Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education."
-W. H. Auden
Axaron3: Thousands have lived without love, not one without water."
W. H. Auden
In case you wonder & in case you're thirsty. Treasure water & keep it clean!
welfordwrites: A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. W H Auden
DayenaJones: “He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.”
By W. H. Auden, Funeral Blues
