H. Auden
H. Auden
becoming danger few forgotten grave life poor study today
Poor Poe! At first so forgotten that his grave went without a tomb-stone twenty-six years. . . today in danger of becoming the life study of a few professors.
communication life-is human-life
Without communication with the dead, a fully human life is not possible.
life fate species
Fate succumbs many a species: one alone jeopardises itself.
funny-life helping-others earth
We are all here on earth to help others.
love-life men lap
An unmanly sort of man whose love life seems to have been largely confined to crying in laps and playing mouse.
picnics life-is precipice
Life is a picnic on a precipice.
life hope wish
Weep for the lives your wishes never led.
writing chance lifetime
The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot.
discovery meaning-of-life recognition
I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew.
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.
love inspirational life
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
men action life-is
A writer is a maker, not a man of action: his private life is of no concern to anybody but himself, his family and his friends.
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.
alas alone animals cannot defeated help history left short stars time
The stars are dead; the animals will not look:/ We are left alone with our day, and the time is short and / History to the defeated / May say Alas but cannot help or pardon.