![]() ![]() Instead / from whose cascading streams / none may drink except in dreams When I’m a veteran with only one eye / I shall do Clear, unscaleable ahead / rise the mountains of Start you shall love your crooked neighbor with your crooked heart. O stand, stand at the window as the tears scaled and I’m afraid there’s many a spectacled sod prefers theīritish Museum to God. Let us honor if we can / the vertical man / though we Any heaven we think it decent to enter must be Ptolemaic ![]() Love like matter is much odder than we thought. Each has his comic role in life to fill, though lifeīe neither comic nor game. Should be prepared, if necessary, to die, the right to play, the right toįrivolity, is not the least. Here are some various quotes I saved as I went through the book.Īmong the half dozen things for which a man of honor Not that they revel in darkness, instead, they are bright and welcoming, but they always have an eye on the grave, and when it comes to facing it, have an unflinching quality. Not that his poems feel forced - rather, they feel like they are made out of hardened steel. He works very hard, and his hard work comes through. ![]() It's weird that it was in a Scottish bookshop, I guess, given that he's an English/American poet. I didn't buy it at first, but after I left, I kept thinking about it, and returned the next day to buy it. It was one of those "recommended by the staff" books. ![]() Auden's poems in a cool bookstore/cafe in Edinburgh. ![]()
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