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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
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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.
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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.
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
