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apoemaday · 4 months

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Funeral Blues (Stop All the Clocks)

by W.H. Auden

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.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead, Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves, Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

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: 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.

#poetry #w.h. auden #funeral blues #stop all the clocks #auden

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thoughtkick · 4 months

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Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say.

W.H. Auden

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ryfkah · 2 months

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all right auden this IS an extremely funny way to describe your kinsey 6 status

(from a letter to Naomi Mitchison quoted in her memoir 'You May Well Ask')

#w.h. auden #from context it seems like she was trying to convince him to get fig-leaf-het-married-of-convenience at the time asdjfkl;sjdakl

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nikov · 1 year

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if equal affection cannot be, LET THE MORE LOVING ONE BE ME.

tolkien (2019) / crush, richard siken / the holiday (2006) / the song of achilles, madeline miller / because i liked you, a.e. housman / the secret history, donna tartt / the more loving one, w. h. auden

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perfectquote · 3 months

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Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say.

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thehopefulquotes · 2 months

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Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say.

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quotemadness · 10 months

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Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say.

W.H. Auden

#W.H. Auden #quotes #quote #lit #literature

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resqectable · 2 months

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Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say.

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quotefeeling · 6 months

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Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say.

W.H. Auden

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sictransitgloriamvndi · 2 months

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Stop All the Clocks 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. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling on the sky the message: He Is Dead. Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves, Let the traffic policemen wear white cotton gloves. 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: 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. - W.H. Auden

#art #poetry #poem #elegy #stop all the clocks #sorrow #loss #mourning poem #w.h. auden #english literature

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perfeqt · 3 months

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Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say.

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perfectfeelings · 1 year

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Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say.

W.H. Auden

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thoughtkick · 1 year

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Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say.

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stay-close · 11 months

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Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say.

W.H. Auden

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sashayed · 1 year

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The More Loving One

Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth indifference is the least We have to dread from man or beast.

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.

Admirer as I think I am Of stars that do not give a damn, I cannot, now I see them, say I missed one terribly all day.

Were all stars to disappear or die, I should learn to look at an empty sky And feel its total dark sublime, Though this might take me a little time.

W.H. Auden In Homage to Clio, 1960

#poetry #national poetry month #w.h. auden

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perfectquote · 1 year

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Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say.

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