Best Wystan Hugh Auden Proverbs
- 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… Amazing
- Love each other or perish Each
- The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in. Angel
- One cannot review a bad book without showing off. Bad
- 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… Along
- Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming of a verse… Bottom
- I used to try and concentrate the poem so much that there wasn't a word that wasn't essential. This leads to becoming boring and constipated. Becoming
- How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the… Affection
- There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must… Allows
- How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or… Bathtubs
- The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the teacup opens A lane to the land of… Bed
- I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen. Blood
- Moreover, if great men are the only hope of the Evolutionary Process, they are morally bound to rule over the masses for their own good… All
- Now the leaves are falling fast, Nurse’s flowers will not last, Nurses to their graves are gone, But the prams go rolling on. Fall
- A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere. Cheese
- Most people enjoy the sight of their own handwriting as they enjoy the smell of their own farts. Enjoy
- Those who will not reason, perish in the act. Those who will not act, perish for that reason. Act
- There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again. Believe
- He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;… Death
- Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were. Desire
- The friends who met here and embraced are gone, Each to his own mistake; Each
- Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people… Auschwitz
- The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his… Avoid
- Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire; Still waters run deep, my dear, there's never smoke without fire. Cups
- There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which… Art
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