Des Färbers Hand und andere Essays. Deutsch von Fritz Lorch. Gütersloh Sigbert Mohn ohne Jahr (1962?), Prolog. Lesen. S. 23
Original englisch: "Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered." - The Dyer's Hand, and other essays. New York Random House 1962. Prologue. Reading. p. 10
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W. H. Auden
Geburtstag: 21. Februar 1907
Todesdatum: 29. September 1973
Andere Namen: W.H. Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden war ein englischer und seit 1946 ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller.
Photo: Carl Van Vechten, Van Vechten Collection at Library of Congress / Public domain
Zitate W. H. Auden
Des Färbers Hand und andere Essays. Deutsch von Fritz Lorch. Gütersloh Sigbert Mohn ohne Jahr (1962?), Prolog. Lesen. S. 17
Original englisch: "Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible" - The Dyer's Hand, and other essays. New York Random House 1962. Prologue. Reading. p. 5
Des Färbers Hand und andere Essays
Weihnachtsoratorium. Zitiert in: Adalbert Schmidt. Literaturgeschichte. Wege und Wandlungen moderner Dichtung. Salzburg Stuttgart, Das Bergland-Buch, 1957. S. 397 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=hTFKAAAAMAAJ&q=alpdruck, s.a. http://books.google.de/books?id=E4M9AQAAIAAJ&q=alpdruck und http://books.google.de/books?id=AfonAAAAMAAJ&q=alpdruck
Original englisch: "We are afraid // Of pain but more afraid of silence; for no nightmare // Of hostile objects could be as terrible as this Void. // This is the Abomination. This is the wrath of God." - For The Time Being. A Christmas Oratorio. Zitiert in TIME Magazin 11. September 1944 http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,775266-2,00.html
Weihnachtsoratorium
„Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.“
— W. H. Auden, buch The Dyer's Hand
"Reading", p. 10
The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays (1962)
— W. H. Auden, buch Forewords and Afterwords
"Walter de la Mare", p. 393
Forewords and Afterwords (1973)
"August 1968"
„A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.“
Squares and Oblongs, in Poets at Work (1948), p. 170
„About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters.“
— W. H. Auden, Musée des Beaux Arts
Quelle: Musée des Beaux Arts (1938), Lines 1–2
— W. H. Auden, buch Forewords and Afterwords
"The Protestant Mystics", p. 73
Forewords and Afterwords (1973)
„I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.“
— W. H. Auden, September 1, 1939
Quelle: September 1, 1939 (1939), Lines 19–22
„No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.“
— W. H. Auden, buch The Dyer's Hand
"Notes on Music and Opera", p. 472
The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays (1962)
— W. H. Auden, buch The Dyer's Hand
"The Virgin & The Dynamo", p. 62
The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays (1962)
— W. H. Auden, buch Forewords and Afterwords
"One of the Family", p. 369
Forewords and Afterwords (1973)
„A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.“
Often attributed to Auden, but he was repeating an anonymous joke; he did not claim to have originated it. See "Who Wrote Auden's Definition of a Professor?" http://www.audensociety.org/definition.html
Misattributed
— W. H. Auden, buch The Dyer's Hand
"The Poet & The City", p. 81
The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays (1962)
„One cannot review a bad book without showing off.“
— W. H. Auden, buch The Dyer's Hand
"Reading", p. 11
The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays (1962)
— W. H. Auden, buch The Dyer's Hand
"Writing", p. 27
The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays (1962)
„All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation.“
"Hell"
A Certain World: A Commonplace Book (1970)
„No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.“
Not by Auden; sources from the 1980s attribute it to the Rev. W. A. Nance (the name seems to have been confused with Auden's).
Misattributed
