What did W. H. Auden mean by: To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal. - W. H. Auden Poet · England Copy
+ No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, W. H. Auden, Class, Innocence, Playing Games, 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
+ Drama is based on the Mistake. Feraz Zeid, August 5, 2023December 12, 2023, W. H. Auden, Drama, Mistake, 0 - W. H. Auden Poet · England
+ Music is the best means we have of digesting time. Feraz Zeid, July 7, 2023December 12, 2023, W. H. Auden, Art, Music, Philosophy, 0 - W. H. Auden Poet · England
+ There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade’s End is one of them. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, W. H. Auden, End, Novel, Parades, 0 - W. H. Auden Poet · England
+ Nobody is ever sent to Hell: he or she insists on going there. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, W. H. Auden, Hell, 0 - W. H. Auden Poet · England
+ We were put on this earth to make things. Feraz Zeid, October 2, 2023December 26, 2023, W. H. Auden, Earth, 0 - W. H. Auden Poet · England
+ Now is the age of anxiety. Feraz Zeid, August 17, 2023December 12, 2023, W. H. Auden, Age, Anxiety, Birthday, 0 - W. H. Auden Poet · England
I want to be the best mum and I want everything to be perfect – I want a fairy tale really. - Jennifer Ellison
Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life. - William Irwin Thompson Philosopher
Examples draw where precept fails, and sermons are less read than tales. - Matt Prior Cricketer · England
Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry. - Max Luthi
It was not a happy ending of the sort in fairy tales, but it was the only one we had. - Megan Hart Author