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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. W.H. Auden

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. W.H. Auden 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. W.H. Auden

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." W.H. Auden

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. W.H. Auden

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

cfm121: what if W. H. Auden had actually seduced John Ashbery? what if they domestically cohabitated? imagine a great American poet having to wake up to a face like that. No Archive Warnings Apply - Language: English - Words: 2733 Donate to AO3 to ke

Harsha_Sayings: The first prerequisite to civilization is an ability to make polite conversation. ~ W.H. Auden 2/n

haramura45971: If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. —W.H. Auden

AncientWisdomHQ: "We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know." - W. H. Auden

Thouotes: "We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know." — W. H. Auden

keaplin: "We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know." -- W. H. Auden

williamjumaa39: 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 forever: I was wrong.,W.H. Auden, Collected Poems,death, love, poetry,

evanc23798: 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,Myself, Mistake, Company ,

DealsOnProducts: Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. W.H. Auden

DoreenKagendi12: We are, for all our polish, of littlestature, and, as human lives,compared with authentic martyrs,of no account.,W.H. Auden,existentialism,

WPRHarvard: John did have a way with libraries! Here's John's response to an overdue notice from the Poetry Room itself (circa 1946). I think I can safely say that with 5,000 books in the Ashbery library, he has far exceeded the requested return of a lone volume of W. H. Auden.

BelindaGreb: Learn from your dreams what you lack. W. H. Auden

caffeinepyaar: “The Ogre does what Ogres can, Deeds quite impossible for Man. But one prize is beyond his reach, The Ogre cannot master Speech: About a subjugated plain, Among its desperate & slain, The Ogre stalks with hands on hips, While drivel gushes from his lips.” -W.H Auden,Prague Spring

kasstl1: "About suffering they were never wrong, The old Masters: how well they understood Its human position..." - W. H. Auden, "Musee des Beaux Arts"

SundPamela: from In Memory of W. B. Yeats by W.H. Auden Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountain start In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise

KateSpitzmiller: W.H. Auden said it best.

M_B_A: "If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me." —W. H. Auden, "The More Loving One"

mannigfaltiges: Der allererste Rap: W. H. Auden, This is the night mail

frank_begbi: Refugee Blues by W. H. Auden – Read by poet Arthur L Wood

johnandi: Regugee Bues by W.H.Auden; A poem for the ages,

Selzer_David: Sheila Hancock - 'Refugee Blues' by W H Auden for Holocaust Memorial Day...

StoicStrength: Choices and consequences. "Choice of attention—to pay attention to this and ignore that—is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences." – W. H. Auden

brain10436419: The world always looks brighter from behind a smile. Drink more ana more water. Teens skin, Teens hair, Teens mind and body will thank you. Thousands have lived without love, not one without water. ― W. H. Auden Be hydrated by drinking H2O, No sweat to go....

LarryBooks: Auden’s Dialectic

seo20222: "There is always another story in everything. What you see isn't everything." By W.H. Auden, British poet

nohate251: "We must love one another or die" W.H. Auden EVIL EYES OFF SUMAAN

kaatjvdntc: If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. —W.H. Auden

tjgtwmdw: If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. —W.H. Auden

archnaverma: if equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. w. h. auden

desdelboy: “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, St. Marks Place, New York, March 3, 1960. Photograph by Richard Avedon.

crimaiota: "Evil is always unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed, and eats at our table."(W.H. Auden)(S1E12)

AmbivalentRants: ‘Plants may sweat profusely but never sully themselves.’ - W.H. Auden

mochatte1: "I was going to be a mining engineer or a geologist. Between the ages of six and twelve, I spent many hours of my time constructing a highly elaborate private world of my own ... " W H Auden

mochatte1: "Later, I realized, in constructing this world which was only inhabited by me, I was already beginning to learn how poetry is written. " W H Auden

mochatte1: (Later) " ... walking across a field with a friend of mine from school who later became a painter. He asked me, “Do you ever write poetry?” and I said, “No”—I’d never thought of doing so. He said: “Why don’t you?”—and at that point I decided that’s what I would do." W H Auden

BanquetSubstack: Little known fact: both Richard Wilbur and W.H. Auden were writers of Clerihews. Whenever complete Collected Works are assembled, these are invariably left out

iMoGalore: Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. W.H. Auden

mochatte1: (Writers) "should teach the eighteenth century or something that won’t interfere with their work and yet earn them a living. To teach creative writing—I think that’s dangerous."

mochatte1: Enjoyed W. H. Auden, The Art of Poetry No. 17 Interviewed by Michael Newman ISSUE 57, SPRING 1974 Paris Review (free)

mawetouny: funeral blues by w h auden

zain214358: "We must love one another or die" W.H. Auden FAHMAAN RULING AS RAVI

BrutonScott: O look, look in the mirror, O look in your distress: Life remains a blessing Although you cannot bless O stand, stand at the window As the tears scald and start; You shall love your crooked neighbour With your crooked heart. As I Walked Out One Evening, W.H. Auden

anton_sorkin: 'O look, look in the mirror,    O look in your distress: Life remains a blessing    Although you cannot bless. ‘O stand, stand at the window    As the tears scald and start; You shall love your crooked neighbour    With your crooked heart.’ W.H. Auden

mkonnikova: This W.H. Auden poem from 1939 feels sadly appropriate.

contentmo: Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. W.H. Auden

jdeposicion: “The dangers and the punishments grew greater, And the way back by angels was defended, Against the poet and the legislator” (W.H. Auden, Sonnets From China II)

everettpoetry: In Memory of W. B. Yeats 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

QuotesToolbox: We are all here on earth to help others. What on earth the others are here for I don’t know. W. H. Auden 230301

JohnSte40163279: "More than ever life-out-there is goodly, miraculous, loveable, but we shan’t, not since Stalin and Hitler, trust ourselves ever again: we know that, subjectively, all is possible." - ‘The Cave of Making’ by W. H. Auden

DavieJonathan: Night Mail by W H Auden 720p (1936)

MattTempest: "We are all here on earth to help others. What on earth the others are here for, I don't know." W.H.Auden's favourite joke, c/o most recent London Review of Books

TahiraGhilzai: "The Ogre does what ogres can.” W.H. Auden



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