Quotes by W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand

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no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it. — W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand
no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it. — W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand
In the eyes of others a man is a poet if he has written one good poem. In his own he is only a poet at the moment when h — W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand
In the eyes of others a man is a poet if he has written one good poem. In his own he is only a poet at the moment when h — W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand
When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have — W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand
When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have — W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand
A child's reading is guided by pleasure, but his pleasure is undifferentiated; he cannot distinguish, for example, betwe — W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand
A child's reading is guided by pleasure, but his pleasure is undifferentiated; he cannot distinguish, for example, betwe — W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand
Practical jokes are a demonstration that the distinction between seriousness and play is not a law of nature but a socia — W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand
Practical jokes are a demonstration that the distinction between seriousness and play is not a law of nature but a socia — W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand
Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow. — W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand
Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow. — W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand
He who despises himself, nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser. (Nietz — W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand
He who despises himself, nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser. (Nietz — W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical ba — W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical ba — W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand
As for Iago’s jealousy, one cannot believe that a seriously jealous man could behave towards his wife as Iago behaves to — W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand
As for Iago’s jealousy, one cannot believe that a seriously jealous man could behave towards his wife as Iago behaves to — W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand
In accepting and defending the social institution of slavery, the Greeks were harder-hearted than we but clearer-headed; — W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand
In accepting and defending the social institution of slavery, the Greeks were harder-hearted than we but clearer-headed; — W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand
After Portia has trapped Shylock through his own insistence upon the letter of the law of Contract, she produces another — W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand
After Portia has trapped Shylock through his own insistence upon the letter of the law of Contract, she produces another — W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand