163 ordspråk av W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden föddes den February 21st 1907 och dog den 29 September 1973
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 About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters: how well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along |
| All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation |
| All that we are not stares back at what we are |
| All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work ''comes'' to him. |
| Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods. |
| Alone, alone, about the dreadful wood / Of conscious evil runs a lost mankind, / Dreading to find its Father. |
| America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an -lite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment. |
| Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator; but among those whom I love, I can: all of them can make me laugh. |
| Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape. |
| Art is born of humiliation. |
| Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. |
| As a poet there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language against corruption. When it is corrupted, people lose faith in what they hear and this leads to violence. |
| Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. |
| But all the clocks in the city Began to whirr and chime: 'O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time. |
| 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. |
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