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
children recipes neurosis
Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.
funny music people
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
thinking thanks
Let all your thinks be thanks.
music art philosophy
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
expression feelings might
Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.
unique men mirrors
Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.
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.
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.