H. Auden
H. Auden
stewardship
You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.
addiction damnation sin
All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
prayer attention definitions
The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.
medicine medical states
Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.
angel way fairytale
The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.
children book adults
There are good books which are only for adults. There are no good books which are only for children.
marriage interesting romance
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
stars passion return
How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me.
confusion confusing funny-basketball
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
exercise answers should
What answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise one's gifts?
trying want aging
If we really want to live, we'd better start at once to try.
philosophical listening asking
See without looking, hear without listening, breathe without asking.
new-year years people
The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.
christmas friday easter
Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.