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docente_errante: I had an irresistible desire to read something from W.H. Auden, just to discover that his poetry is absent from the Kindle store. Found a free 1945 collection from the Indian digital library.
malaisebot: “Noons of dryness find you fed
By the involuntary powers,
Nights of insult let you pass
Watched by every human love.”
- Lullaby by W.H. Auden
BeineckeLibrary: Photograph of W. H. Auden, inscribed to Joseph Brodsky
iMoGalore: Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother 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
imagineterrain: Noticed that W.H. Auden’s “Night Mail,” written for a landmark documentary following British rail postal services, opens with "the cheque and the postal order.” In 1936, the mail is first of all a way of moving money.
Onyedikachined: Aw.
The Age of Anxiety by W.H. Auden inspired three artists who made a symphony and a ballet (twice by Jerome and Liam) out of his book respectively.
PlanetenPaultje: The 1939 poem "Epitaph On A Tyrant” by W.H. Auden has never lost any of its power since it was written.
seosolim: 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
SyedTaukir: "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."
W. H. Auden
MUNAWAR ERA BEGINS
alansmlxl: A sentence makes a world appear
Where all things happen as it says they do;
We doubt the speaker, not the words we hear;
Words have no words for words that are not true —W.H. Auden
theheidifeed: "Were all stars to disappear or die
I should learn to look at an empty sky
And feel its total dark sublime."
W.H. Auden
"The More Loving One"
taleast: ‘The More Loving One’ - W. H. Auden
EBloodaxe19: 'My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain'.
W.H. Auden 1907 ~ 1973
glosseantics: w.h auden, wallace stevens, john ashberry... the great american literary trilogy of ending your verses with "well um you know"
glosseantics: w.h. auden: histories greatest lovecel
ScDuende: Insofar as I know, having to pay taxes is NOT A PUNISHMENT; it is a contribution to the greater good. Tax the churches; tax the corporations; tax the wealthy. As W. H. Auden said, "We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know."
JonTyson: “We must love one another or die.”
(W. H. Auden)
martharp: The more loving one, W.H. Auden
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welfordwrites: Definition of a college professor: someone who talks in other people's sleep. W H Auden
RamonSomoza1: A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. W.H. Auden
raybert761: ‘If I Could Tell You’ by W H Auden read by Tom o'bedlam
KenSmith: Refugee Blues by W. H. Auden
2l3DnUXTnARw1OK: A real book is not one that we read・恵ut one that reads us. W. H. Auden
rosemended: No thoughts no feelings just funeral blues by W. H. Auden
KoushiSherrill: 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
KerriKristine: "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
ravbutterflies: "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.”
W. H. Auden
Helen Levitt - New York, 1940.
denysbakirov: That girls are raped, that two boys knife a third,
Were axioms to him, who’d never heard
Of any world where promises were kept,
Or one could weep because another wept.
© W. H. Auden. The Shield of Achilles.
SyedTaukir: To save your world you asked this man to die; Would this man, could he see you
now, ask why?
W. H. Auden , Epitaph for an Unknown Soldier
MUNAWAR ERA BEGINS
shemaiahng: Is it just me, or is Sean Bean morphing into W.H. Auden?
MyCreditLimited: Look if you like, but you will have to leap.
W. H. Auden
TimothyBalding: Reading old diaries... Perhaps I'll put excerpts on Twitter. My own stories & many of others: 'W.H. Auden crossed the Alps in a train with friends, deep in a book. As they gushed with joy at the landscapes, Auden glanced out of the window and said: "Un regard suffit largement".
tonyprinciotti: "No good opera plot can be sensible; people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."
- W. H. AUDEN
ForTheTape: Most people call something profound, not because it is near some important truth but because it is distant from ordinary life. Thus, darkness is profound to the eye, silence to the ear; what-is-not is the profundity of what-is.
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
ReubenHibbert: A great quote from the article above is “Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.” W.H. Auden. Even years ago people realised the issue but we still didn't do anything and still haven't now. it is not a one man effort but an international need for sustainability.
RunBallerinaRun: "The surest way to discipline passion is to discipline time." – W.H. Auden
believe_thomas: 4 of 5 stars to For the Time Being by W.H. Auden
Jeetstorms: 1. Some quick thoughts on Erdogan, the Dragonlance novels, Reagan, W. H. Auden & cheap energy
poetsonline: "It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it."
- W.H. Auden
Still true?
mcnaughtongunn: May 20, 1946: English poet W.H. Auden becomes a U.S. citizen
pauljimerson: I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street
Happy Birthday, W.H. Auden !
pauljimerson: “We must love one another or die”
― W.H. Auden
pauljimerson: “Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.”
― W.H. Auden, New Year Letter
scott_olson: Interesting (or ironic) that this quasi-intellectual cites a poem by W.H. Auden as part of their screed, given Auden's lifestyle (but the writers targeted audience is most likely to NEVER be aware of this.)
PaulSto91558029: “Thousands have lived without love, not one without water” - W.H. Auden
Habib_Kareem_: “The four necessary human relationships: to love; to be loved; to be a teacher; to be a pupil.”
W.H. Auden
BWDR: “W.H. Auden once wrote ‘No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.’ The same principle can be applied to comedy—specifically, the Marx Brothers’ absurdist brand. Logic is not required for a laugh.”
g_keillor: On this day in 1946 English-born poet, W.H. Auden became a U.S. citizen. "It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it."
crimaiota: "Evil is always unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed, and eats at our table."（W.H. Auden）（S1E12）
Orwell_Society: W H Auden was probably thinking of something earlier:
"Accurate scholarship can
Unearth the whole offence
From Luther until now
That has driven a culture mad,
Find what occurred at Linz,
What huge imago made
A psychopathic god... "
(September 1st, 1939)
2l3DnUXTnARw1OK: Man is what he reads. W. H. Auden
TrainingMindful: “A 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 at exactly the same moment every day, and passion will give you no trouble.” ~ 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
edwereddie: W. H. Auden becomes a US citizen (May 20, 1946) •
Shakespeare’s Sonnets are published, perhaps illicitly, by Thomas Thorpe (May 20, 1609) •
After months of correspondence, Elizabeth Barrett meets her future husband, Robert Browning, for the first time (May 20, 1845).
cuevasarchive: ⠀⠀⠀⠀
if equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me. ❞
—w.h. auden.
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TimeTraveler017: English poet W.H. Auden becomes a U.S. citizen
zmkc: There is, from beginning to end of Auden’s career, an awareness of the manifold ways in which we deceive ourselves.
crimaiota: "Evil is always unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed, and eats at our table."（W.H. Auden）（S1E12）
SherPoint: “The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around us. I do not know if such increased awareness makes us more moral or more efficient. I hope not. I think it makes us more human ...”
~ W. H. Auden.
hasudi: "We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know."
~W. H. Auden~
EstrdAlxndra: A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. ~W. H. Auden
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EstrdAlxndra: Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings. ~W.H. Auden
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symptomatic: "that we shall, at most and at best, love our crooked neighbor with our crooked heart"
scarthinbooks: W H Auden had got the measure of one of these names several years earlier:
Time that with this strange excuse
Pardoned Kipling and his views,
And will pardon Paul Claudel,
Pardons him for writing well.
(In Memory of W B Yeats)
clemensetz: After Krakatoa exploded,
the first living thing to return
Was the ant, Tridomyrex, seeking
in vain its symbiot fern.
(W.H. Auden)
TotoBaudo: W.H.Auden in Venice, Italy, 1951
©Ruth Orkin
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.”
DurhamWASP: Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros & of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation & despair,
Show an affirming flame.
W.H. Auden
iruesque: an introduction, the old playhouse (poems) - kamala das
wants (poem) - philip larkin
the unknown citizen (poem) - w.h. auden
armadill2010: 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. (W. H. Auden)
Waheed50380613: "We must love one another or die"
W.H. Auden
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markjonesjr: W.H. Auden on poets:
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.
Regina_Kenney: We must love one another or die.
- W. H. Auden
PoetREDMEDUSA: “The poet marries the language, and out of this marriage the poem is born.”
- W.H. Auden
Habib_Kareem_: “Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.”
W. H. Auden
abenamagis: 08:50
Thousands have lived without love, none can live without water - W. H. Auden
TrainingMindful: “Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.” ~ 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
sarahroseetter: “truth, like love & sleep, resents approaches that are too intense.” — w.h. auden
PassmoreEdwards: Wed 18th May, 10am-12pm. Journeys – a relaxed social gathering to explore journeys & transport, using the poem Night Mail by W H Auden as inspiration. Tea & Biscuits provided.
This is a drop in session open to all, as part of our programme of events for Dementia Awareness Week.
LilianeGiraudon: "The Hero," by W. H. Auden
1662Ie: Matthew S. C. Olver, Nashotah House Theological Seminary, on the 1662 BCP International Edition:
"W. H. Auden was spot-on when he said the English Prayer Book had the singular good fortune of being 'composed and its Bible translated at exactly the right time:
lipsumart: "Drink"
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"Thousands have lived without love, not one without water." - W. H. Auden
This is one of my photo manipulation perspective experiments. I'm sure someone out there will like it as much as I do.
DurhamWASP: "A poet has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use of his mother tongue which is always being corrupted. When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over."
W.H. Auden
TheWordicle: "To choose what is difficult all ones days, as if it were easy, that is faith." - W. H. Auden
DurhamWASP: Every day America's destroyed and re-created,
America is what you do.
America is I and you,
America is what you choose to make it.
W.H. Auden
carylloper: Dance till the stars come down from the rafters. Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop ~ 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.”
rahulrai0301: Will it come like a change in the weather?
Will its greeting be courteous or rough?
Will it alter my life altogether?
O tell me the truth about love.
- W H Auden
Cassubiethierry: Funeral Blues (Stop all the clocks) -W H Auden. Poem Analysis
Gadea: W. H. Auden:
“Those to whom evil is done, do evil in return”
JaneVsw: 'Refugee Blues' by W.H. Auden
bandsilvercreek: ❤️ 'O Tell Me the Truth About Love ❤️ - W.H. Auden read by Tom O'Bedlam
Abbacdo01: "I thought that love will last forever,
I was WRONG." w. H. Auden.
POETSorg: 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
iMoGalore: Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
W.H. Auden
_qollo: I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.
W. H. Auden
audencuttings: "he has brought innumerable people closer to the world in which they have to live" (John Ashbery concludes his Harvard senior thesis, "The Poetic Medium of W.H. Auden", 1949).
