Wystan Hugh Auden citáty
Wystan Hugh Auden
Dátum narodenia: 21. február 1907
Dátum úmrtia: 29. september 1973
Ďalšie mená: W.H. Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden bol anglo-americký básnik.
Citáty Wystan Hugh Auden
„Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.“
— W. H. Auden, kniha The Dyer's Hand
"Reading", p. 10
The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays (1962)
— W. H. Auden, kniha Forewords and Afterwords
"Walter de la Mare", p. 393
Forewords and Afterwords (1973)
"August 1968"
„A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.“
Squares and Oblongs, in Poets at Work (1948), p. 170
„About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters.“
— W. H. Auden, Musée des Beaux Arts
Zdroj: Musée des Beaux Arts (1938), Lines 1–2
— W. H. Auden, kniha Forewords and Afterwords
"The Protestant Mystics", p. 73
Forewords and Afterwords (1973)
„I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.“
— W. H. Auden, September 1, 1939
Zdroj: September 1, 1939 (1939), Lines 19–22
„No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.“
— W. H. Auden, kniha The Dyer's Hand
"Notes on Music and Opera", p. 472
The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays (1962)
— W. H. Auden, kniha The Dyer's Hand
"The Virgin & The Dynamo", p. 62
The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays (1962)
— W. H. Auden, kniha Forewords and Afterwords
"One of the Family", p. 369
Forewords and Afterwords (1973)
„A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.“
Often attributed to Auden, but he was repeating an anonymous joke; he did not claim to have originated it. See "Who Wrote Auden's Definition of a Professor?" http://www.audensociety.org/definition.html
Misattributed
