A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.
More Quotes from Wystan Hugh Auden:
A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.Wystan Hugh Auden
What all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return.
Wystan Hugh Auden
Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.
Wystan Hugh Auden
Earth, receive an honored guest William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry.
Wystan Hugh Auden
History to the defeated May say Alas but cannot help nor pardon.
Wystan Hugh Auden
A poet's hope to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.
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