"In Brueghel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns……" — Wystan Hugh Auden
"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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Wystan Hugh Auden
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314 Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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