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kadirbilgin: Those to whom evil is done do evil return. ''Wystan Hugh Auden''

michaelscaines: I don’t think Wystan’s terrific virtuosity quite compensates for his lack of a strong, lucid, objective, free-verse style. All that.. seems to me a kind of fire works which is marvellous of Wystan, but of no real help to anyone else writing poetry. – Stephen Spender, March 7 1935

RHUL_Library: Wystan Hugh Auden was a British-American poet and academic, closely associated with his friend and fellow-writer, Christopher Isherwood. Auden wrote nearly 400 poems encompassing a wide range of styles, tone and themes, including politics, morals, love, and religion.

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ARTSalamode: Born 2/21: artist Pyotr Konchalovsky, writers Wystan Hugh "W.H." Auden, Anais Nin, David Foster Wallace, Jose Zorrilla y Moral, jazz musicians Nina Simone, Tadley "Tadd" Dameron, musicians Bobby Charles, Mary Chapin Carpenter.

FXMC1957: 21 February 1907. Acclaimed poet, Wystan Hugh (“WH”) Auden, was born in York. Poetry specialists have usually ranked him third behind WB Yeats and TS Eliot in lists of the greatest poets of the 20th century, but in recent years some have ranked him as the highest of those three.

pequenoServer: 31-208-174-98 Wystan Hugh Auden (; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was a British-American poet. Auden's poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form, and content.

MelanieJaxn: As I listened from a beach-chair in the shade To all the noises that my garden made, It seemed to me only proper that words Should be withheld from vegetables and birds. -Wystan Hugh Auden

AgyemangAsieduG: "You owe it to all of us to get on with what you're good at. Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say. There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again." — Wystan Hugh Auden was an Anglo-American poet.

arcocielo: Blues in memoria - Wystan Hugh Auden

rthonbwooster: Good advice on veganism, long term ethical altruism, etc. "Thou shalt not live within thy means Nor on plain water and raw greens. If thou must choose Between the chances, choose the odd; Read The New Yorker, trust in God; And take short views."

theostibes: "their tongues tattoed by the tribal jargon" Wystan Hugh Auden

y_t_w_: "My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;" —— Wystan Hugh Auden

JustAdduce: “A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.” ~ Wystan Hugh Auden.

Greschinov: Another Time - Wystan Hugh Auden

Natalie83828942: „For the error bred in the bone Of each woman and each man Craves what it cannot have, Not universal love But to be loved alone.” (Wystan Hugh Auden)

FXMC1957: 29 September 1973. Legendary poet, Wystan Hugh (“WH”) Auden, died (aged 66). Poetry specialists have usually ranked him 3rd behind WB Yeats and TS Eliot in lists of the greatest poets of the 20th century, but in recent years some have ranked him as the highest of the three.

iamNecmettinAka: "He was my North, my South, my East and West My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last for ever: Iwas wrong." Wystan Hugh Auden | Funeral Blues

IArtioli: Will it alter my life altogether? O tell me the truth about love. {Wystan Hugh Auden — O Tell Me the Truth About Love

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tsaralounga: « ..For you it’d be great. At least because there’s an Armenian church nearby and it’s better to listen to the mass when you don’t know the words. You don’t speak Armenian, do you?» Joseph Brodsky’s enthusiastic recollection of his meetings with his idol Wystan Hugh Auden TBC

SimurgInfo: Wystan Hugh Auden | O Tell Me the Truth About Love

Thouotes: We would rather be ruined than changed We would rather die in our dread Than climb the cross of the moment And let our illusions die...Wystan Hugh Auden

sellaway: "To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally." Wystan Hugh Auden

ingo_don: — wing prose, in accordance with his engagement with the group of Marxist writers assembled at Oxford, where he studied, around Wystan Hugh Auden & Stephen Spender. After the 2nd WW he moved away from Marxist ideology & focused his poetry on issues of private life. —

SrVelarde: - "For the Time Being" Poema de Wystan Hugh Auden

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QuotesByGillis: Yes I do “You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.” - Wystan Hugh Auden

autonomy_eth: a rare auden misfire: we can only do what it seems to us we were made for, look at this world with a happy eye but from a sober perspective nthat's precisely backwards, dear wystan hugh the world comes to us through sober eyes but if we are to be wise, a happy heart

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urminaia: BD - Wystan Hugh Auden (Feb. 21, 1907 - Sept. 29, 1973). "But once in a while the odd thing happens Once in a while the dream comes true And the whole pattern of life is altered Once in a while, the moon turns blue."

FXMC1957: 21 February 1907. Poet W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden was born in York. Poetry specialists have usually ranked him third behind W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot in lists of the greatest poets of the 20th century but in recent years some have ranked him as the highest of those three.

Roy_Wallen: If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me. ― Wystan Hugh Auden, born on this date in 1907

FXMC1957: 21 February 1907. Wystan Hugh ["W.H"]) Auden was born in York. Regarded as one of the great poets of 20th century. http://t.co/MaLxWjQ1Cl

CebiSubash: “All chance, all love, all logic, you and I, Exist by grace of the Absurd”. Happy 115th birthday to the inimitable Wystan Hugh Auden!

BlogTolkien: "For W. H. A" is a poem by Tolkien for W. H. Auden's 60th birthday (21 February 1967), written in Anglo-Saxon & English and included in Shenandoah: A Tribute to Wystan Hugh Auden on his Sixtieth Birthday. Tolkien signed it with his name's Old English form, Raegnold Hraedmoding.

FXMC1957: 21 February 1907. Acclaimed poet, Wystan Hugh (“WH”) Auden, was born in York. Poetry specialists have usually ranked him third behind WB Yeats and TS Eliot in lists of the greatest poets of the 20th century, but in recent years some have ranked him as the highest of those three.

papialessandra: 'If equal affection cannot be let the more loving one be me' Wystan Hugh Auden

Dikker14: Blues in memoria – Wystan Hugh Auden – Poesia in rete

TwttPoet: “You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.” — Wystan Hugh Auden

MelanieJaxn: As I listened from a beach-chair in the shade To all the noises that my garden made, It seemed to me only proper that words Should be withheld from vegetables and birds. -Wystan Hugh Auden

MindsetAllen: When one has great gifts, what answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise them - Wystan Hugh Auden

wagnerblog: "Auden died in Austria just one year after leaving [NY] in 1973. In 1982 a commemorative plaque was installed on the building at 77 Saint Mark’s Place. It read: 'Wystan Hugh Auden lived here from 1953 to 1972. It was stolen in 1997 and was never replaced."

LilianeBreuning: “My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.” Wystan Hugh Auden

LilianeBreuning: “My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.” Wystan Hugh Auden love him he is a great poet, a very witty person and, last but not least, he asked Hannah Arendt to marry him.

_inspirationbot: When one has great gifts, what answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise them - Wystan Hugh Auden

IArtioli: Will it alter my life altogether? O tell me the truth about love. {Wystan Hugh Auden — O Tell Me the Truth About Love

MTwouldbeRaees: "Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings." ~Wystan Hugh Auden [1907-1973] [The British-American Poet]

HarveyStans1: A blessed St Cecilia’s Day to all my musician friends and colleagues! ‘Blessed Cecilia, appear in visions To all musicians, appear and inspire’ (Wystan Hugh Auden)

FXMC1957: 29 September 1973. Legendary poet, Wystan Hugh (“W. H.”) Auden, died (aged 66). Poetry specialists have usually ranked him third behind WB Yeats and TS Eliot in lists of the greatest poets of the 20th century but in recent years some have ranked him as the highest of the three.

RickC137__: A series of self portraits inspired by a poem written by Wystan Hugh Auden. 1- The last goodbye. 2- The last gift. 3- Solitude.

ThomasJPuleo: “Del resto un altro gigante dei versi, Wystan Hugh Auden . . . “ I wish Italians would stop using the full names of authors who always used only their first and middle initials. It is not more correct to refer to them that way.

genuine_organ: I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return. Wystan Hugh Auden

blah_inthedark: I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong. The stars are not wanted now: put out every one; Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun; Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood. For nothing now can ever come to any good. Wystan Hugh Auden

TellersSociety: A quote by Wystan Hugh Auden!

AgyemangAsieduG: "You owe it to all of us to get on with what you're good at. Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say. There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again." — Wystan Hugh Auden was an Anglo-American poet.

aliyildizlegal: 'Refugee blues' written by Wystan Hugh Auden.

JoyOfFeeding: We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here for, I don't know. ~ Wystan Hugh Auden

sellaway: "To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally." Wystan Hugh Auden

botsford_cla: Sudden memory of a knock-knock joke going around the year he died (those old enough to remember format):”Knock knock/Who’s there?/Wystan/Wystan Hugh?/Auden you to know?”

lmcastaldi: «Butterflies, alas, ignore us, but midges don’t, unfortunately» Wystan Hugh Auden, Shorts

ontie_ODM: Poetry is life. One of my favourite poems about grief is called Funeral Blues by Wystan Hugh Auden. The opening reads as follows: Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,

bigfutjeril: Listen I just want to look for my daughter and play Gwent I don't care about Wystan Hugh Auden

gaymen_online: Vintage gay Above is a photograph dating back to 1939 of Wystan Hugh Auden(left) (right) and Christopher Isherwood (right) (left). Auden was a poet from York, England but became a naturalized American after WWII.

PaulFle68532537: Wystan Hugh Auden - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)

Mmelodramatique: You shall love your crooked neighbour With your crooked heart -Wystan Hugh Auden

Sulatrynaya: "evil is unspectacular and always human, [it] shares our bed and eats at our table" Wystan Hugh Auden

AryQuintella: Brodsky on setting out to write in English: "My sole purpose then, as it is now, was to find myself in closer proximity to the man whom I considered the greatest mind of the twentieth century: Wystan Hugh Auden".

letelpo: The stars are not wanted now: put out every one; Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun; Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood, For nothing now can ever come to any good. Wystan Hugh Auden, 1940

NaserEDHG: Attacking bad books is not only a waste of time, but also bad for the character. • Wystan Hugh Auden

citizenkeith: housemate just shared this delight with me. "i'll love you until China and Africa meet" DELICIOUS Wystan Hugh Auden - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)

wandainparis: Wystan Hugh Auden - Funeral Blues

_voice_ed: This week we're looking into a few historic LGBTQ+ sources in our Collections and Archives at the University of Edinburgh. Did you know that the CRC holds several volumes of Christopher Isherwood's work, signed copies of Wystan Hugh Auden's work or the Fred Urquhart Collection?

George_Maximus: What is waiting for? "The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists..." Wystan Hugh Auden, The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays

dtalia: ... Between those who mean by a life a Bildungsroman and those to whom living means to-be-visible-now, there yawns a gulf embraces cannot bridge. ... Good - bye to the Mezzogiorno, Auden Wystan HUGH

reesean: It’s the birthday of British poet, author, and playwright W.H. Auden (books by this author), born Wystan Hugh Auden in York, England (1907). Auden once said, “A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.”

CebiSubash: “I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky” Happy birthday Wystan Hugh Auden, the undeniable legend!

PetloverHermine: 21Feb/1907: Wystan Hugh Auden is born on Bootham Street in York, England.

borntodayfamous: [February - 21, 1907] On this day in history birth of wystan Hugh Auden, US, poet (Age of ...

urminaia: BD - Wystan Hugh Auden (Feb. 21, 1907 - Sept. 29, 1973). "I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you Till China and Africa meet, And the river jumps over the mountain And the salmon sing in the street."

dalston_boy: Wystan Hugh Auden born 21 February 1907 in York “Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.”

omniaomnibus: Wystan Hugh Auden - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937)

CebiSubash: Wystan Hugh Auden tugging at heartstrings just like that

MelanieJaxn: As I listened from a beach-chair in the shade To all the noises that my garden made, It seemed to me only proper that words Should be withheld from vegetables and birds. -Wystan Hugh Auden

Nishant_Malkan: For the error bred in the boneOf each woman and each manCraves what it cannot have,Not universal loveBut to be loved alone. - Wystan Hugh Auden ROAR LIKE RUBINA

Kapilda98581023: For the error bred in the boneOf each woman and each manCraves what it cannot have,Not universal loveBut to be loved alone. - Wystan Hugh Auden ROAR LIKE RUBINA

rosaban_daryl: "Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings". - Wystan Hugh Auden

frxncestherese: came across this beautiful stanza by Wystan Hugh Auden from a book. if i may share, it says: “How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me.”

LoftBooks: The stars are not wanted now: put out every one; Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun; -Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973)

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StillPine: “Thousands have lived without love; not one without water.” -Wystan Hugh Auden

MauroGrasselli: "To be free is often to be lonely". Wystan Hugh Auden

elliestudies: tw all caps GOD MUSEE DE BEAUX ARTS STILL REMAINS THE BEST POEM I HAVE EVER EVER READ AND ITS JUST UGH I COULD TALK ABOUT IT FOR HOURS WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN YOU'RE INSANE FOR WRITING IT /POS YOURE AMAZING SPECTACULAR CUNNING INTELLIGENT AND UUUUGHGHHGHHHH ITS GOOD. ITS A GOODASS PO

LetlapaMphahlel: WEEKEND FEAST FOR THOUGHT: "The first criterion of success in any human activity, the necessary preliminary, whether to scientific discovery or artistic vision, is intensity of attention, less pompously, love." Wystan Hugh Auden.

alanigolanski: One Sunday afternoon in the Fall of 1967, Jürgen Habermas, Wystan Hugh Auden, and Uwe Johnson gathered at Hannah Arendt's flat on Riverside Drive, NYC, for coffee, presumably also a bit of chatting.



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