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«A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.»
«But all the clocks in the city Began to whirr and chime:'O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| Keywords:
began, chime, chimed, chimes, city, clocks, deceive, In the City, The City, The Clocks, whirr
«The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me»
«We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know»
«Let mortals beware of wordsFor with words we lieCan speak peaceWhen we mean warBut song is trueLet music for peaceBe the paradigmFor peace means changeAt the right time»
«In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| About:
Reading,
Writers
| Keywords:
double standard, in relation to, readers, relation to, The Double, unfaithful
«Now is the age of anxiety.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| About:
Anxiety
| Keywords:
anxiety, The Age of Anxiety
«Music is the best means we have of digesting time.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| About:
Music
| Keywords:
digesting, digests, well-meaning
«But in my arms till break of dayLet the living creature lie,Mortal, guilty, but to meThe entirely beautiful.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| Keywords:
arms, break of day, creature, entirely, guilty, mortal
«A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist. This means that in order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character, that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| Keywords:
concrete, craftsman, foible, foibles, physician, psychologist, psychologists, scientist, surgeon, surgeons, that is to say, weaknesses
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