Favorites Quote's
Author
Topic's
Blog
A Poet Can Write About A Man Slaying A Dragon, But Not About A Man Pushing A Button That Releases A Bomb.
-W. H. Auden
Please Wait....
Translating....
Select Image
Download as Image
English
Spanish
French
German
Hindi
Chinese
A Poet Can Write About A Man
W. H. Auden
A Poet Can Write About A Man Slaying A Dragon, But Not About A Man Pushing A Button That Releases A Bomb.
Views: 3
Topic
Writing
Men
Dragons
More From W. H. Auden
I Don't Get Acting Jobs Because Of My Looks.
Jobs
Acting
Looks
A Small Grove Massacred To The Last Ash, An Oak With Heart-rot, Give Away The Show: This Great Society Is Going To Smash; They Cannot Fool Us With How Fast They Go, How Much They Cost Each Other And The Gods. A Culture Is No Better Than Its Woods.
Heart
Giving
Environmental
The Relation Of Faith Between Subject And Object Is Unique In Every Case. Hundreds May Believe, But Each Has To Believe By Himself.
Faith
Believe
Unique
I Am Sure It Is Everyone’s Experience, As It Has Been Mine, That Any Discovery We Make About Ourselves Or The Meaning Of Life Is Never, Like A Scientific Discovery, A Coming Upon Something Entirely New And Unsuspected; It Is Rather, The Coming To Conscious Recognition Of Something, Which We Really Knew All The Time But, Because We Were Unwilling To Formulate It Correctly, We Did Not Hitherto Know We Knew.
Discovery
Meaning Of Life
Recognition
Literary Confessors Are Contemptible, Like Beggars Who Exhibit Their Sores For Money, But Not So Contemptible As The Public That Buys Their Books.
Money
Book
Confession
Trending Author
Venerable Bede
Kevin Costner
Gilbert K. Chesterton
W. Averell Harriman
Lisa Leslie
Miguel De Cervantes
Quotes by Topics
Action
Attention
Believe
Blessing
Desire
Dream
Ends
Fear
Fun
God
Grief
Hard Work
Hate
Life
Leave Me Alone
Men
Mind
Moving
Opportunity
Philosophy
Positive
Religious
Strong
Thinking
Want
Category