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
The Americans are violently oral. . . . That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all -- isn't respected in the least.

R
"One tapped my shoulder and asked me `How did you fall, sir?'
Whereat I awakened."
A
Poor Poe! At first so forgotten that his grave went without a tomb-stone twenty-six years. . . today in danger of becoming the life study of a few professors.
N
"Of course, Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviourist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian creed in public."
K
"Noises at dawn will bring
Freedom for some, but not this peace
No bird can contradict."
 
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Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "The Table Talk of W. H. Auden, "Halloween 1947" (comp. by Alan Ansen, ed. by Nicholas Jenkins, 1990)."
R: 1st January 1931
A: "Introduction to Edgar Allan Poe (1950; repr. in The Recognition of Edgar Allen Poe, ed. by E. W. Carlson, 1970)."
N: "A Certain World," 'Behaviourism'"
K: Taller Today
   



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