To make one, there must be two.
W.H. AudenWords have no word for words that are not true.
W.H. AudenBase words are uttered only by the base
And can for such at once be understood;
But noble platitudes — ah, there's a case
Where the most careful scrutiny is needed
To tell a voice that's genuinely good
From one that's base but merely has succeeded.
Tag: talent poetry writing meaning skill embroidery platitudes baseness
The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.
W.H. AudenEvery autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
W.H. AudenTag: perception autobiography sense-of-self
When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.
W.H. AudenTag: art taste conventionality
The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.
W.H. AudenTag: intelligence doubt stimulus
Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods.
W.H. AudenTag: science art worship sacred
Oh dear white children, casual as birds,
Playing among the ruined languages,
So small beside their large confusing words.
For poetry makes nothing happen: it survives
In the valley of its making where executives
Would never want to tamper, flows on south
From ranches of isolation and the busy griefs,
Raw towns that we believe and die in; it survives,
A way of happening, a mouth.
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