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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 Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind |
| 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? |
| Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores |
| Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest. |
| My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain. |
| Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading. |
| No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. |
| No hero is immortal till he dies |
| No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. |
| No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. |
| No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted. |
| Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire; it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire. |
| Noises at dawn will bring / Freedom for some, but not this peace / No bird can contradict. |
| Now Ireland has her madness and her weather still, For poetry makes nothing happen |
| O for doors to be open and an invite with gilded edges / To dine with Lord Lobcock and Count Asthma. |
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