#wh auden

[theimpossiblecool]

“You owe it to all of us to get on with what you're good at.”

W.H. Auden

#wh auden #irving penn #impossible cool

[nikov]

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

#web weaving #words #parallels #rb:words #mine:words #year:2023 #tolkien #crush #Richard siken #the holiday #the song of achilles #Madeline miller #because I liked you #ae housman #the secret history #tsh #donna tartt #the more loving one #wh auden #w.h. auden #unrequited love

[balkanparamo]

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (detail) by Bruegel

#art #painting #pieter bruegel the elder #icarus #the fall #wh auden

[cynassa]

Auden thinks 'Hamlet' as a play is a failure because you can't logic your way out of it, it doesn't make sense that Hamlet feels so betrayed by his mother, by Ophelia, and it doesn't make sense that he believes a ghost which could be his father's ghost or could be a spirit lying to him and it doesn't make sense that Hamlet can't decide whether to avenge his father or not and he sets up elaborate plans that might not come to fruition

And I'm just screaming softly into my hands like grief doesn't make sense and loss doesn't make sense and other people moving on when your whole life is broken apart and you won't have the future that was promised to you (a loving father a perfect mother the woman of your dreams the throne that's your birthright except it isn't anymore) doesn't make sense

#wh auden #hamlet #Shakespeare #cyn talks

[movietonight]

I love him

[ID: A tweet by John Finnemore reading "In a national survey, dogs have named W. H. Auden's 'Funeral Blues' as Best Poem for an extraordinary 86th consecutive year."]

#John Finnemore #Tweet #WH Auden #Funeral Blues #Macks Musings

[victusinveritas]

#jrr tolkien #lotr #lord of the rings #wh auden #writing about writing

[conservethis]

I found this feather stuck inside a book of poetry by W.H Auden, next to a poem called “Reflections in a Forest”.

Here’s the full text of the poem:

Within a shadowland of trees

Whose lives are so uprightly led

In nude august communities,

To move about seems underbred

And common any taste for words;

When, thoughtlessly, they took to song,

Whatever one may think of birds,

The example that they set was wrong.

In keeping still, in staying slow

For posture and for social ease,

How much these living statues ow

Their scent-and-color languages.

For who can quarrel without terms

For Not or Never, who can raise

Objections when what one affirms

Is necessarily the case?

But trees are trees, an alm or oak

Already both outside and in,

And cannot, therefore, counsel folk

Who have their unity to win.

Turn all tree-signals into speech,

And what comes out is a command:

'Keep running if you want to reach

The point of knowing where you stand.'

A truth at which one should arrive,

Forbids immediate utterance,

And tongues to speak it must contrive

To tell two different lies at once.

My chance of growing would be slim,

Were I with wooden honesty

To show my hand or heart to Him

Who will, if I should lose, be Me.

Our race would not have gotten far,

Had we not learned to bluff it out

And look more certain than we are

Of what our motion is about:

Nor need one be a cop to find

Undressing before others rude:

The most ascetic of our kind

Looks naked in the buff, not nude.

#found in a book #wh auden #poetry #original content #feather #library book #libraries

[austinkleon]

W.H. Auden, “Their Lonely Betters,” Nones (1951)

My friend Alan recited this aloud to me in my backyard yesterday and it was just perfect.

Can you spot the allusion to Robert Frost?

#wh auden #poetry #animals #language #words

[visionsoftheblind]

From Refugee Blues by W.H. Auden.

Auden wrote this poem for Germans who had to leave their country during World War 2. The sad thing is the world hasn't changed at all.

#palestine #i stand with palestine #wh auden #w. h. auden #poetry #refugees #gaza #free palestine #poems on tumblr

[ladyhighever]

Dragon Age Origins - Bioware || Funeral Blues - W. H. Auden ||Reflections - Ana Carrizo || Down Bad - Taylor Swift || Bruise - Jhoanna Lynn Cruz || Parallel Universe - Clara Benin || One Last Poem for Richard - Sandra Cisneros

#dragon age #dragon age origins #alistair theirin #web weaving #ttpd #taylor swift #wh auden #jhoanna lynn cruz #clara benin #sandra cisneros #queen cousland #except not in this universe babey!!! #ailis cousland

[poems-from-around-the-world]

The More Loving One - W.H. Auden - UK

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.

#The More Loving One #w.h. auden #WH Auden #UK #poem #poetry #poems from around the world

[haveyoureadthispoem-poll]

"Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone..."

Read it here | Reblog for a larger sample size!

#closed polls #polls #poetry #poems #poetry polls #poets and writing #tumblr poetry #wh auden #w.h. auden #funeral blues #funeral blues wh auden

[neomarsh]

Wally is too comfortable to draw

#wally darling #welcome home wally #Wally #WH wally #Welcome home #Welcome home art #wh auden #art #doodle #drawing #sketch #artists of tumblr #art of tumblr #NOTE: CUFFLINKS ARE NONCANON

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods.

- W.H. Auden

#auden #wh auden #quote #poet #arts #art #science #false gods #sacred #culture #society

[nobrashfestivity]

Epitaph On A Tyrant

Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after, And the poetry he invented was easy to understand; He knew human folly like the back of his hand, And was greatly interested in armies and fleets; When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried the little children died in the streets.

- W.H. Auden

#wh auden #w.h. auden #w h auden #poetry #vote

[thezfc]

Tom reading the poem I will always think of Four Weddings and a Funeral when I hear 😭

#tom hiddleston #national theatre #funeral blues #wh auden