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W. H. Auden - From the Art category:
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. (W. H. Auden)
W. H. Auden - From the Audience category:
If there are any of you at the back who do not hear me, please don't raise your hands because I am also nearsighted. (W. H. Auden)
W. H. Auden - From the Beauty category:
It's better to say, "I'm suffering," than to say, "This landscape is ugly." (W. H. Auden)
W. H. Auden - From the Books category:
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. (W. H. Auden)
W. H. Auden - From the Change category:
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)
W. H. Auden - From the Communication category:
Without communication with the dead, a fully human life is not possible. (W. H. Auden)
W. H. Auden - From the Dreams category:
A man is a form of life that dreams in order to act and acts in order to dream. (W. H. Auden)
W. H. Auden - From the Earth category:
Earth, receive an honoured guest: / William Yeats is laid to rest. / Let the Irish vessel lie / Emptied of its poetry. (W. H. Auden)
W. H. Auden - From the Education category:
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep. (W. H. Auden)
W. H. Auden - From the Ego category:
All that we are not stares back at what we are. (W. H. Auden)
W. H. Auden - From the Listening category:
Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose. (W. H. Auden)
W. H. Auden - From the Loneliness category:
Alone, alone, about the dreadful wood / Of conscious evil runs a lost mankind, / Dreading to find its Father. (W. H. Auden)
W. H. Auden - From the Meaning category:
What answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise one's gifts? (W. H. Auden)
W. H. Auden - From the Money category:
It is a sad fact about our culture, that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practising it. (W. H. Auden)
W. H. Auden - From the Music category:
Music is the best means we have of digesting time. (W. H. Auden)
W. H. Auden - From the Poetry category:
-in memory of William Butler Yeats...
Now Ireland has her madness and her weather still, / For poetry makes nothing happen. (W. H. Auden)
W. H. Auden - From the Poetry category:
-Collected Poems
A poet's hope: to be, / like some valley cheese, / local, but prized elsewhere. (W. H. Auden)
W. H. Auden - From the Politics category:
Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction. (W. H. Auden)
W. H. Auden - From the Responsibility category:
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, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be. (W. H. Auden)
W. H. Auden - From the Seeing category:
It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ. (W. H. Auden)
W. H. Auden - From the Subject category:
To me Art's subject is the human clay, / And landscape but a background to a torso; / All Cezanne's apples I would give away / For one small Goya or a Daumier. (W. H. Auden)
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