What did W. H. Auden mean by: Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle. W. H. Auden Poet · England Copy
+ I know nothing, except what everyone knows – if there when Grace dances, I should dance. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, W. H. Auden, Humility, Participation, Unity, 0 W. H. Auden Poet · England
+ It’s better to say, ‘I’m suffering,’ than to say, ‘This landscape is ugly. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, W. H. Auden, Empathy, Perception, Self-awareness, 0 W. H. Auden Poet · England
+ Weep for the lives your wishes never led. Author, July 14, 2023January 2, 2025, W. H. Auden, Dreams, Loss, Regret, 0 W. H. Auden Poet · England
+ A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, W. H. Auden, Language, Passion, Poetry, 0 W. H. Auden Poet · England
+ Those who will not reason, perish in the act. Those who will not act, perish for that reason. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, W. H. Auden, Action, Perish, Reason, 0 W. H. Auden Poet · England
+ A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, W. H. Auden, Evolution, Immediacy, Reflection, 0 W. H. Auden Poet · England
+ A shilling life will give you all the facts. Author, September 16, 2023January 2, 2025, W. H. Auden, Facts, Life, Value, 0 W. H. Auden Poet · England
+ Our claim to our own bodies and our world is our catastrophe. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, W. H. Auden, Catastrophe, Identity, Ownership, 0 W. H. Auden Poet · England
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness. Jean Genet Playwright · France
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice. Walter Darby Bannard Painter · USA
