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W. H. Auden quotes about humanity

English Poet February 21, 1907 – September 29, 1973

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A. E. Housman'No one, not even Cambridge was to blame(Blame if you like the human situation): Heart-injured in North London, he became. The Latin Scholar of his generation. Deliberately he chose the dry-as-dust, Kept tears like dirty postcards in a drawer; Food was his public love, his private lust. Something to do with violence and the poor. In savage foot-notes on unjust editions. He timidly attacked the life he led, And put the money of his feelings on. The uncritical relations of the... W. H. Auden
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 our mortal world enough; Noons of dryness find you fed. By the involuntary powers, Nights of insult let you pass. Watched by every human love. W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden quote: "Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm;"
Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm; W. H. Auden
The Three Wiseman: The weather has been awful, The countryside is dreary, Marsh, jungle, rock; and echoes mock, Calling our hope unlawful; But a silly song can help along. Yours ever and sincerely: At least we know for certain that we are three old sinners, that this journey is much too long, that we want our dinners, and miss our wives, our books, our dogs, but have only the vaguest idea why we are what we are. To discover how to be human now. Is the reason we follow this star. W. H. Auden
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
W. H. Auden quote: "Human "nature" is a nature continually in quest of itself,..."
Human "nature" is a nature continually in quest of itself, obliged at every moment to transcend what it was a moment before. W. H. Auden
That the speech of self-disclosure should be translatable seems to me very odd, but I am convinced that it is. The conclusion that I draw is that the only quality which all human being without exception possess is uniqueness: any characteristic, on the other hand, which one individual can be recognized as having in common with another, like red hair or the English language, implies the existence of other individual qualities which this classification excludes. W. H. Auden
Follow, poet, follow right. To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice. Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming of a verse. Make a vineyard of the curse, Sing of human unsuccess. In a rapture of distress; In the deserts of the heart. Let the healing fountain start, In the prison of his days. Teach the free man how to praise. W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden quote: "No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent..."
No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden quote: "Evil is unspectacular and always human, And shares our bed and..."
Evil is unspectacular and always human, And shares our bed and eats at our own table .... W. H. Auden

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