H. Auden
H. Auden
believe writing double-standard
In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.
healing heart relaxation
In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountain start.
christmas friday easter
Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.
travel artist difficult
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.
death war men
To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
art mean breaking-silence
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
leadership joy great-leader
No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.
faith easy difficult
To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith
mistake science drawing
When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.
trying essentials becoming
I used to try and concentrate the poem so much that there wasn't a word that wasn't essential. This leads to becoming boring and constipated.
love stars ocean
I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky.
dream your-dreams
Learn from your dreams what you lack.
angel way fairytale
The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.
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.