H. Auden
H. Auden
medicine medical states
Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.
exercise answers should
What answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise one's gifts?
choices hunger
Hunger allows no choice.
love death song
He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.
sensual desire wish
Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.
art media political
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
love order mind
The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.
life believe writing
No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.
gentleman acting actors
The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.
helping-others love-each-other
Love each other or perish
history answers study
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
art sleep men
There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love.
dancing grace should
I know nothing, except what everyone knows - if there when Grace dances, I should dance.
dog joy wags
In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.