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Letter "W" » W. H. Auden Quotes
«Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefers to dwell on what is absent, on what has been or may be. If men are more punctual than women, it is because they know that, without the external discipline of clock time, they would never get anything done.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| Keywords:
absent, appreciation, clock time, dwell on, here and now, masculine, prefers, punctual
«Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| Keywords:
cases, consequences, ignore, outer, pay attention, responsible, responsible for
«Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a woman when in fact she is my mother, that this person is a chambermaid when it is a young nobleman in disguise, that this well-dressed young man is rich when he is really a penniless adventurer, or that if I do this such and such a result will follow when in fact it results in something very different. All good drama has two movements, first the making of the mistake, then the discovery that it was a mistake.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| Keywords:
adventurer, adventurers, chambermaid, disguise, drama, dressed, first base, married person, Movements, nobleman, noblemen, penniless, rich person, such-and-such, The Discovery, young man
«What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| Keywords:
consumed, dish, entertainment, intended, mass media, media, new media, offers, Popular entertainment, replaced
«Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.»
«The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.»
«I know nothing, except what everyone knows ? if there when Graces dances, I should dance.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| About:
Dancing,
Grace,
Knowledge
| Keywords:
dances, know nothing, the Graces
«Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.»
«Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession»
«Defenseless under the night, Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light, Flash out wherever the Just, Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them, Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same, Negation and despair»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| Keywords:
beleaguer, Beleaguered, defenseless, dot, dots, dotted, Eros, flash, ironic, messages, stupor
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