W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden
Wystan Hugh Audenwas an English poet, who later became an American citizen. He is best known for love poems such as "Funeral Blues," poems on political and social themes such as "September 1, 1939" and "The Shield of Achilles," poems on cultural and psychological themes such as The Age of Anxiety, and poems on religious themes such as "For the Time Being" and "Horae Canonicae." He was born in York, grew up in and near Birmingham in a professional middle-class...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth21 February 1907
W. H. Auden quotes about
love motivational strength
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
smell blood eras
I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen.
change growth religion
We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.
technique crafts sincerity
Sincerity is technique.
heart bears forgotten
And none will hear the postman’s knock Without a quickening of the heart. For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
voice
All I have is a voice.
smell doe invisible
Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
life art beer
In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite and loving one's neighbor.
games class action
No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
iceland people passionate
Few people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate.
finding-the-one people trying
Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits them -- the one, in fact, which is not a mask.
names nicknames
Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.
funny-friendship funny-best-friend differences
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
eye stories more-than-meets-the-eye
There's always another story. There's more than meets the eye.