What did W. H. Auden mean by: If we really want to live, we’d better start at once to try. W. H. Auden Poet · England Copy
+ Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, W. H. Auden, Books, Forgotten, 0 W. H. Auden Poet · England
+ The friends who met here and embraced are gone, Each to his own mistake. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, W. H. Auden, Friendship, Loss, Mistakes, 0 W. H. Auden Poet · England
+ We were put on this Earth to help others. Why others were put here is beyond me. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, W. H. Auden, Altruism, Confusion, Purpose, 0 W. H. Auden Poet · England
+ If there are any souls in hell, it is because that is where they insist on being. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, W. H. Auden, Choice, Damnation, Responsibility, 0 W. H. Auden Poet · England
+ I think the first prerequisite to civilization is an ability to make polite conversation. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, W. H. Auden, Communication, Etiquette, Socialization, 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
+ Goodness is easier to recognize than to define. Author, August 4, 2023January 2, 2025, W. H. Auden, Definition, Goodness, Recognition, 0 W. H. Auden Poet · England
+ The camera may do justice to laughter, but must degrade sorrow. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, W. H. Auden, Emotion, Perception, Truth, 0 W. H. Auden Poet · England
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia. Read explanation W. Somerset Maugham Playwright and novelist · United Kingdom
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness. Jean Genet Playwright · France
