We would rather be ruined than changed
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die.
- #WHAuden, 'The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue'
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“Geese in flocks above you flying,
Their direction know.
Icy brooks beneath you flowing,
To their ocean go.”
W H Auden (1936)
#photography #BirdPhotography #nature #geese #sky #BlueSky #PotD #poetry #WHAuden #migration
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"A #poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language." ( #WHAuden)
21 March is #WorldPoetryDay.
My favourite #poem is 'In Memory of #WBYeats' by WH Auden. Hear him read it:
▶️ youtu.be/4weiiclPTzY?si…
#Poetry
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"In what way was the terrible sadness of this broken man reflected in the poetry? Not at all."
📚Richard Harries reviews Auden by Peter Ackroyd
#WHAuden #Poetry #Biography
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[BOOK LAUNCH] 10.03.26 / 12h / online
LOOP annonce le lancement d'un ouvrage consacré au poète né un 21 février
Aurélien Saby (@sorbonne-universite.fr) : W. H. Auden, pertes et repères dans la cité (@editionspur.bsky.social, 2025)
Infos et lien: loop.hypotheses.org/2302
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#WHAuden
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“The hour-glass whispers to the lion’s roar,
The clock-towers tell the gardens day and night
How many errors Time has patience for,
How wrong they are in being always right.”
W H Auden (1939)
#photography #church #Culross #poem #WHAuden #ClockTower #PotD #ThomasCochrane #statue #architecture
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Remembering the birthday of W. H. Auden, the Pulitzer Prize-winning (1948) English-American poet, I am watching my illusions die one by one as I suffer through my own "Age of Anxiety."
More: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-po...
#WHAuden #poetry #AgeofAnxiety
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Celebrating W. H. Auden’s birthday, I #amwriting #poetry with all the passion existent in my own immersion into the swirling beauty of language. 📚💙
More: W. H. Auden, Pulitzer Prize winning (1948) English-American poet - www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-po...
#WHAuden #quotes on #language
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www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/161869...
Born on this day, 1907.
This one always makes me smile.
#WHAuden
#Poetry
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Chronicles of The Bard: ' ...my North, my South, my East and West ...'
Poem 📝: 'Funeral Blues' by WH Auden (1907-1973)
In Memoriam: ✝ Paul Kózary (1966-2013) ✝
Interpreted by 🎭: Tal Profs
🔗 Chronicles Of The Bard 🔗
www.youtube.com/@talprofs
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#poetry #inmemoriam #WHAuden #art #talprofs
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Born on this day in 1907, W.H. Auden (1907–1973) was an Anglo-American poet whose work shaped 20th-century literature. From politics to love and faith, his verse combined intellect and lyric power.
“We must love one another or die.” — September 1, 1939 #WHAuden #OTD
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The poet W.H. Auden walking through the snow on St. Mark's Place in New York City. Photograph by Richard Avedon.
I've always loved this photo of W.H. Auden on St. Mark's Place, taken by Richard Avedon
#WHAuden
#RichardAvedon
#Booksky
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All we are not stares back at what we are.
Wystan Hugh Auden, The Sea and the Mirror
born on this day, 1907
#BookSky
#WHAuden
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A black and white photograph of poet WH Auden.
The front cover of 'The Age of Anxiety' by WH Auden.
On this day in 1907 WH Auden was born.
Auden was the son of a doctor in York and lived all over the world(mostly Britain and the USA). He was one of the most famous poets of the 20th century, famously winning the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for his 'Age of Anxiety'.
#OnThisDay #WHAuden
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"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."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/w-h-au...
✒ English-American poet #WHAuden was #BOTD 21 February 1907. #Poetry #Literature
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“It takes about eighteen months for one
To ripen into a skeleton,
To be washed, folded, packed in a small
Niche hollowed out of the cemetery wall.”
W H Auden (1956)
#photography #skeletons #books #gallery #PotD #poem #WHAuden #Museum #zoology #Grant #UCL #London #pattern
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Do not despair– even for someone like #Tolkien, as he revealed in a letter to #WHAuden, some of the core ideas of the greatest works only emerged in the doing:
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IN MEMORY OF #ERNSTTOLLER
By #WHAuden
(d. May 1939)
The shining neutral summer has no voice
To judge America, or ask how a man dies;
And the friends who are sad and the enemies who rejoice
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We are lived by powers we pretend to understand. - W.H. Auden, from ‘IN MEMORY OF ERNST TOLLER’
Your #existential PSA for the day, courtesy of #WHAuden:
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“Looming over my head
Mountains menace my life,
But on either hand, let down
From U-valleys like yarn,
Waterfalls all the way
Quietly encourage me on.”
W H Auden (1940)
#photography #waterfalls #MagicGrotto #FairyPools #Skye #Scotland #WesternIsles #Poetry #WHAuden #poem #PotD
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“Victor looked up at the sunset
As he stood there all alone;
Cried: ‘Are you in Heaven, Father?’
But the sky said ‘Address not known’.”
W H Auden (1937)
#photography #sunset #sea #reflection #clouds #poetry #WHAuden #PotD
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From FOR THE TIME BEING, A #CHRISTMAS ORATORIO
By #WHAuden
[𝙘𝒐𝙣𝒄𝙡𝒖𝙨𝒊𝙤𝒏]
𝙉𝒂𝙧𝒓𝙖𝒕𝙤𝒓
Well, so that is that. Now we must dismantle the tree,
Putting the decorations back into their cardboard boxes --
Some have got broken -- and carrying them up to the attic.
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Estas son mis veinte lecturas favoritas del 2025 (y como música de fondo tengo muy presentes aquellas maravillosas palabras del gran #WHAuden: «hay libros que son injustamente olvidados; ninguno es injustamente recordado»). Seguid el hilo 👇
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Choice of #attention –to pay attention to this and ignore that– is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
- #WHAuden
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Choice of attention--to pay attention to this and ignore that--is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.” ― W.H. Auden
Your #existential PSA for the day, courtesy of #WHAuden:
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Stardate: 2025.11.4 - "Grieve"
Deny it, then enrage it before you bargain with it and then wallow in it but above all, accept it. 🙏
#FuneralBlues #WHAuden #Grieve #Poetry #TheFiveStages #PoetryCommunity #PoetryLover #PoetryAddict #PoetryOfTheHeart #PoetryOfTheDay #5StagesOfGrief #FiveStagesOfGrief
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