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W. H. Auden quotes

English Poet February 21, 1907 – September 29, 1973

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For poetry makes nothing happen: it survives In the valley of its making where executives. Would never want to tamper, flows on south. From ranches of isolation and the busy griefs, Raw towns that we believe and die in; it survives, A way of happening, a mouth. W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden quote: "Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words..."
Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before. W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden quote: "If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for..."
If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden quote: "You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at."
You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at. W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden quote: "You owe it to all of us to get on with what you're good at."
You owe it to all of us to get on with what you're good at. W. H. Auden
Organic growth is a cyclical process; it is just as true to say that the oak is a potential acorn as it is to say the acorn is a potential oak. But the process of writing a poem, of making any art object, is not cyclical but a motion in one direction toward a definite end. W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden quote: "Oh dear white children, casual as birds, Playing among the..."
Oh dear white children, casual as birds, Playing among the ruined languages, So small beside their large confusing words. 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
In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one. W. H. Auden
Lovers of small numbers go benignly potty, Believe all tales are thirteen chapters long, Have animal doubles, carry pentagrams, Are Millerites, Baconians, Flat-Earth-Men. Lovers of big numbers go horribly mad, would have the Swiss abolished, all of us. Well-purged, somatotyped, baptised, taught baseball: They empty bars, spoil parties, run for Congress. W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden quote: "Fate succombs many a species. One alone jeopardizes itself."
Fate succombs many a species. One alone jeopardizes itself. W. H. Auden
Some thirty inches from my nose. The frontier of my Person goes, And all the untilled air between. Is private pagus or demesne. Stranger, unless with bedroom eyes. I beckon you to fraternize, Beware of rudely crossing it: I have no gun, but I can spit. W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden quote: "A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us."
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden quote: "Let all your thinks be thanks."
Let all your thinks be thanks. W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden quote: "Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry."
Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry. W. H. Auden

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