H. Auden
H. Auden
architecture change house shining styles
Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at / New styles of architecture, a change of heart.
hope food cooking
A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.
reason
Those who will not reason, perish in the act. Those who will not act, perish for that reason.
inspirational funny helping-others
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
poetic poet makers
A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
music art thinking
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
responsibility machines bills
There are bills to be paid, machines to keep in repair, Irregular verbs to learn, the Time Being to redeem From insignificance.
long-ago judgment accusation
Long ago the accusations had begun, And suddenly knew by whom it had been judged
listening prose remarks
Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose.
curious genealogy delusion
Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others.
motorcycle tables artifacts
A poem is a verbal artifact which must be as skillfully and solidly constructed as a table or a motorcycle.
faces wiser
Private faces in public places Are wiser and nicer Than public faces in private places.
parades ends novel
There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade's End is one of them.
insane world facts
A person incapable of imaging another world than given to him by his senses would be subhuman, and a person who identifies his imaginary world with the world of sensory fact has become insane.