When one has great gifts, what answer to the meaning of existence
should one require beyond the right to exercise them?
-- W. H. Auden
should one require beyond the right to exercise them?
-- W. H. Auden
Related:
- A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. -- W. H. Aude
- We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here
for, I don't know.
-- W. H. Auden.... - At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of
existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.
-- Justice Anthony Kennedy... - No poet or novelist wishes he was the only one who ever lived, but most of
them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe
their wish has been granted.
-- W.H. Auden, "The Dyer's Hand... - A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere. -- W. H. Aude
- The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.
H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling. -- George Orwell... - Those who will not reason, perish in the act.
Those who will not act, perish for that reason.
-- W. H. Auden, _Shorts_... - No opera plot can be sensible, for in sensible situations people do not sing. --W H Aude
- One who puts into one's art what one has not been capable of putting
into one's existence.
It is because he was unhappy that God created the world. -- Henri de Montheria...
