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.
becoming danger few forgotten grave life poor study today
Poor Poe! At first so forgotten that his grave went without a tomb-stone twenty-six years. . . today in danger of becoming the life study of a few professors.
english-poet
For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
curate full room science shabby
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
thinking two keeping-secrets
You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
doe torture no-nonsense
Of course,Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture.
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.
smell sight people
Most people enjoy the sight of their own handwriting as they enjoy the smell of their own farts.
grateful analysis be-grateful
Aside from purely technical analysis, nothing can be said about music, except when it is bad; when it is good, one can only listen and be grateful.
symbols
What we have not named as a symbol escapes our notice.
ideas march clear
History marches to the drum of a clear idea.
cities soul holes
Say this city has ten million souls, Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes: Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s no place for us.
lonely
To be free is often to be lonely.