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Letter "W" » W. H. Auden Quotes
«To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention --on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God. . .»
«Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.»
«Music, which can be made anywhere, Is invisible, And does not smell also»
«Only those in the last stage of disease could believe that children are true judges of character.»
«There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, ''Did you get an erection?'' If the answer is ''Yes'' from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| Keywords:
erection, erections, pornographic, pornography, twelve
«You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.»
«It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| Keywords:
aristocracies, aristocracy, laborers, leisure time, prospect, recalls
«Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.»
«A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.»
«One cannot review a bad book without showing off.»
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