W.H. Audenin a sentence
- W.H. Auden spent the first half of his life in England.
- W.H. Auden, Morrie's favorite poet† (source)
- I teach, with some regularity, two great poems based on that painting, W. H. Auden's "Musee des Beaux Arts" (1940) and William Carlos Williams's "Landscape with Fall of Icarus" (1962).† (source)
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Behind, without a sound
The woods have come up and are standing round
In deadly crescent.
And the bolt is sliding in its groove,
Outside the window is the black remover's van,
And now with sudden, swift emergence
Come the women in dark glasses, the hump-backed surgeons
And the scissor-man.
W. H. Auden, The Witnesses
It was cold, it was cold and the roof was made of bones.† (source)
- My mom didn't really have room to talk, considering she'd let my dad name me and my brother: Detram Hollis was a professor my dad greatly admired, while W. H. Auden was his favorite poet.† (source)
- W. H. Auden, in his great elegy "In Memory of W. B. Yeats" (1940), emphasizes the coldness of the day Yeats died.† (source)
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Acts of injustice done
Between the setting and the rising sun
In history lie like bones, each one.
W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, The Ascent of F6
"The night you left the warren, the Owsla were turned out to look for you.† (source)