28 ordspråk av Wystan Hugh Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
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Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
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Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy
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Speechless Evil / Borrowed the language of Good / And reduced it to noise.
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The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me
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Those who will not reason / Perish in the act: / Those who will not act/ Perish for that reason.
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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
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To save your world you asked this man to die;
Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know
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We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
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What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.
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When the Sex War ended with the slaughter of the Grandmothers, / They found a bachelor's baby suffocating under them; / Somebody called him George and that was the end of it: / They hitched him up to the Army.
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You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at.
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