I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.
The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.
Tag: poetry
Love each other or perish
W.H. AudenWhen I try to imagine a faultless love
Or the life to come, what I hear is the murmur
Of underground streams, what I see is a limestone landscape.
The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.
W.H. AudenTag: fairy-tales
Sorry, my dear, one mustn't be bohemian!
W.H. AudenOne cannot review a bad book without showing off.
W.H. AudenFew people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate.
W.H. AudenThe windiest militant trash
Important Persons shout
Is not so crude as our wish:
What mad Nijinsky wrote
About Diaghilev
Is true of the normal heart;
For the error bred in the bone
Of each woman and each man
Craves what it cannot have;
Not universal love
But to be loved alone.
In Brueghel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster, the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green water,
And the expensive ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.
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