W. H. Auden idézetek
W. H. Auden: Idézetek angolul
First published in book form in Look, Stranger! (1936; US title On this Island)
Forrás: Autumn Song (1936), Lines 17–20
"Tyranny”
A Certain World: A Commonplace Book (1970)
"The Greeks and Us", p. 15
Forewords and Afterwords (1973)
Forrás: Paris Review interview (1972), p. 247
Lay your sleeping head, my love (1937), lines 1–2, written January 1937; also known as Lullaby.
"Postscript: Christianity & Art", p. 461
The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays (1962)
"The Protestant Mystics", p. 51
Forewords and Afterwords (1973)
"The Prince's Dog", p. 201
The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays (1962)
Epitaph on a Tyrant (1939), lines 5–6
"Un Homme d'Esprit", p. 361
Forewords and Afterwords (1973)
The Dyer's Hand (1955), in the BBC weekly The Listener (30 June 1955)
"Genius & Apostle", p. 435
The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays (1962)
“Acts of injustice done
Between the setting and the rising sun
In history lie like bones, each one.”
The Ascent of F6, written with Christopher Isherwood, Act II, Scene V; quoted by Richard Adams in his novel Watership Down. (1936)
“Let us honour if we can
The vertical man
Though we value none
But the horizontal one.”
Dedication to Christopher Isherwood, Poems (1930)
“Music is the best means we have of digesting time.”
A quotation from Igor Stravinsky, not Auden. Cited as Auden's through a misreading of a paragraph in Stravinsky: Chronicle of a Friendship, by Robert Craft (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972), p. 6. (The antecedent of "he" is unmistakably "Mr. S." in Craft's sentence: "He also makes a marvelous remark to the effect that 'Music is the best means we have of digesting time'"; and in the sentence that follows "he" is again Stravinsky, not Auden.)
Misattributed
“A million eyes, a million boots in line,
Without expression, waiting for a sign.”
The Shield of Achilles (1952)
“Sad is Eros, builder of cities,
And weeping anarchic Aphrodite.”
In Memory of Sigmund Freud (1939), lines 111–112
