H. Auden
H. Auden
teacher children war
Our researchers into Public Opinion are content That he held the proper opinions for the time of year; When there was peace, he was for peace: when there was war, he went. He was married and added five children to the population, Which our Eugenist says was the right number for a parent of his generation, And our teachers report that he never interfered with their education. Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd: Had everything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.
love valentines-day rivers
I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.
unique men mirrors
Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.
symbols
What we have not named as a symbol escapes our notice.
fate puppets chance
Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance.
expression feelings might
Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.
people negative bad-people
Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say
thinking thanks
Let all your thinks be thanks.
music art philosophy
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
art nature get-well
'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
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.
reason
Those who will not reason, perish in the act. Those who will not act, perish for that reason.
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.
smell sight people
Most people enjoy the sight of their own handwriting as they enjoy the smell of their own farts.