What did W. H. Auden mean by: Few people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate. - W. H. Auden Poet · England Copy
+ Those to whom evil is doneDo evil in return. Feraz Zeid, September 9, 2023December 24, 2023, W. H. Auden, Compassion, Evil, Return, 0 - W. H. Auden Poet · England
+ One can only blaspheme if one believes. Feraz Zeid, July 3, 2023December 12, 2023, W. H. Auden, Believe, 0 - W. H. Auden Poet · England
+ In the deserts of the heartLet the healing fountain start. Feraz Zeid, August 26, 2023December 24, 2023, W. H. Auden, Heal, Heart, Relaxation, 0 - W. H. Auden Poet · England
+ What we have not named as a symbol escapes our notice. Feraz Zeid, July 27, 2023December 12, 2023, W. H. Auden, Symbols, 0 - W. H. Auden Poet · England
+ We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don’t know. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, W. H. Auden, Funny, Helping others, 0 - W. H. Auden Poet · England
+ Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle. Feraz Zeid, August 28, 2023December 24, 2023, W. H. Auden, Dark, Fate, Sea, 0 - W. H. Auden Poet · England
+ A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, W. H. Auden, Language Words, Love, Passion, 0 - W. H. Auden Poet · England
+ As a rule, it was the pleasure-haters who became unjust. Feraz Zeid, August 9, 2023December 12, 2023, W. H. Auden, Heal, Pleasure, Unjust, 0 - W. H. Auden Poet · England
Love, slow and gradual in its growth, is too much like friendship ever to be a violent passion. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion. - Jean Fritz
The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue. - William Cowper Poet · England
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. - Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself! - Jean Racine Playwright · France
When I’m carried away, isn’t it clear that my heart contradicts my mouth? - Jean Racine Playwright · France
By dying I wanted to maintain my honor, and hide a flame so black from the daylight! - Jean Racine Playwright · France
