163 ordspråk av W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden föddes den February 21st 1907 och dog den 29 September 1973
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 ''God is Love,'' we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word. |
| ''Healing,'' Papa would tell me, ''is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'' |
| 'In headaches and in worry Vaguely life leaks away, And Time will have his fancy To-morrow or to-day. |
| . . . see without looking, . . . hear without listening, . . . breathe without asking. |
| A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish. |
| A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist. This means that in order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character, that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own. |
| A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime. |
| A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless. |
| A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb |
| A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects. |
| A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. |
| A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep |
| A shilling life will give you all the facts. |
| A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do. |
| A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. |
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