Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.

W.H. Auden

Mots clés poetry



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Evil is unspectacular and always human,
And shares our bed and eats at our own table ....

W.H. Auden

Mots clés evil familiarity



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The Three Wiseman:

The weather has been awful,
The countryside is dreary,
Marsh, jungle, rock; and echoes mock,
Calling our hope unlawful;
But a silly song can help along
Yours ever and sincerely:
At least we know for certain that we are three old sinners,
that this journey is much too long, that we want our dinners,
and miss our wives, our books, our dogs,
but have only the vaguest idea why we are what we are.
To discover how to be human now
Is the reason we follow this star.

W.H. Auden


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Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.

W.H. Auden

Mots clés mankind geology



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Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever,
And do not listen to those critics ever
Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books
Plain cooking made still plainer by plain cooks.

W.H. Auden


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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

W.H. Auden

Mots clés book



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The Ogre does what ogres can,
Deeds quite impossible for Man,
But one prize is beyond his reach:
The Ogre cannot master speech.

About a subjugated plain,
Among its desperate and slain,
The Ogre stalks with hands on hips,
While drivel gushes from his lips.

W.H. Auden

Mots clés drivel ogres



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The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.

W.H. Auden


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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

W.H. Auden

Mots clés books writing memory appreciation forget notability quality



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The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.

W.H. Auden


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