What did W. H. Auden mean by: Our claim to our own bodies and our world is our catastrophe. W. H. Auden Poet · England Copy
+ There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, W. H. Auden, Belief, Certainty, Doubt, 0 W. H. Auden Poet · England
+ Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, W. H. Auden, Change, History, Identity, 0 W. H. Auden Poet · England
+ The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity. Author, June 5, 2023January 2, 2025, W. H. Auden, Eye, Novelty, 0 W. H. Auden Poet · England
+ Water is the soul of the Earth. Author, August 5, 2023January 2, 2025, W. H. Auden, Connection, Essential, Life, 0 W. H. Auden Poet · England
+ Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation. Author, October 31, 2023January 2, 2025, W. H. Auden, Escape, Introversion, Knowledge, 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
+ You owe it to all of us all get on with what you’re good at. Author, July 12, 2023January 2, 2025, W. H. Auden, Duty, Productivity, Strength, 0 W. H. Auden Poet · England
+ With the farming of a verseMake a vineyard of the curse Author, June 26, 2023January 2, 2025, W. H. Auden, Creativity, Redemption, Transformation, 0 W. H. Auden Poet · England
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
There’s no such thing as autobiography, there’s only art and lies Jeanette Winterson Author · England
The skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches. Jean Cocteau Artist · France