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Category Archive: 1907

W. H. Auden Quote: “Learn from your dreams what you…”

Learn from your dreams what you lack.

October 26, 2021 1907, English, February 21, Quotes by Poets, W. H. Auden

Louis MacNeice Quote: “I would have a poet able…”

I would have a poet able bodied, fond of talking, a reader of the newspapers, capable of pity and laughter, informed in economics, appreciative of women, involved in personal relationships, actively interested in politics, susceptible to physical impressions.

October 18, 2021 1907, British, Louis MacNeice, Quotes by Poets, September 12

W. H. Auden Quote: “History is, strictly speaking, the study…”

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

October 14, 2021 1907, English, February 21, Quotes by Poets, W. H. Auden

W. H. Auden Quote: “Sob, heavy world Sob as you…”

Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.

September 22, 2021 1907, English, February 21, Quotes by Poets, W. H. Auden

Louis MacNeice Quote: “Nationalism of the Irish type is…”

Nationalism of the Irish type is often regarded as reactionary. With the World Revolution and the Classless Society waiting for the midwife, why take a torch to the stable to assist at the birth of a puppy? Even if the puppy is pedigree. On this question I am unable to make up my mind.

September 21, 2021 1907, British, Louis MacNeice, Quotes by Poets, September 12

W. H. Auden Quote: “One cannot walk through an assembly…”

One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

September 17, 2021 1907, English, February 21, Quotes by Poets, W. H. Auden

W. H. Auden Quote: “A poet is, before anything else…”

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

September 5, 2021 1907, English, February 21, Quotes by Poets, W. H. Auden

Louis MacNeice Quote: “Let them not make me a…”

Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me.

August 31, 2021 1907, British, Louis MacNeice, Quotes by Poets, September 12

W. H. Auden Quote: “‘Healing,’ Papa would tell me, ‘is…”

‘Healing,’ Papa would tell me, ‘is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.’

August 31, 2021 1907, English, February 21, Quotes by Poets, W. H. Auden

W. H. Auden Quote: “We all have these places where…”

We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

August 29, 2021 1907, English, February 21, Quotes by Poets, W. H. Auden

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