What did W. H. Auden mean by: With the farming of a verseMake a vineyard of the curse W. H. Auden Poet · England Copy
+ The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in. Author, November 3, 2023January 2, 2025, W. H. Auden, Escapism, Imagination, Surrealism, 0 W. H. Auden Poet · England
I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, W. H. Auden, Awareness, Consequences, Cycle, 0 W. H. Auden Poet · England
+ Words are for those with promises to keep. Author, June 10, 2023January 2, 2025, W. H. Auden, Accountability, Commitment, Responsibility, 0 W. H. Auden Poet · England
A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, W. H. Auden, Death, Impact, Recognition, 0 W. H. Auden Poet · England
+ Time will say nothing but I told you so. Author, October 6, 2023January 2, 2025, W. H. Auden, Consequences, Time, Warning, 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
+ Love each other or perish. Author, September 10, 2023January 2, 2025, W. H. Auden, Community, Love, Survival, 0 W. H. Auden Poet · England
+ Look if you like, but you will have to leap. Author, June 29, 2023January 2, 2025, W. H. Auden, Courage, Exploration, Risk, 0 W. H. Auden Poet · England
Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art’s only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality Jean Rousset
Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Painter · France
