Creative Quotations from . . .
W. H. Auden
(1907-1973) born on Feb 21
English-US "poet, dramatist, editor". "He wrote passionately about social problems and post-WW I anxiety; won Pulitzer for verse "Age of Anxiety," 1948."
 
   
F
"Healing,"
Papa would tell me,
"is not a science,
but the intuitive art
of wooing Nature.""

R
"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."
A
"A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become."
N
"All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation."
K
"America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an élite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment."


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: The Art of Healing.
R: "The Dyer's Hand, pt. 7, "Notes on the Comic" (1962)."
A: "The Dyer's Hand, pt. 8, "Notes on Music and Opera" (1962)."
N: "A Certain World, "Hell" (1970)."
K: "Faber Book of Modern American Verse, Introduction (1956)."



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