W. H. Auden Quotes About Bones

Quotes about: Bones

• The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish: What mad Nijinsky wrote About Diaghilev Is true of the normal heart; For the error bred in the bone Of each woman and each man Craves what it cannot have; Not universal love But to be loved alone.

  W. H. Auden

  Heart, Men, Errors

  "September 1, 1939" l. 59 (1939)

• Acts of injustice done
  Between the setting and the rising sun
  In history lie like bones, each one.

  W. H. Auden

  Lying, Rising, Done

  "The Ascent of F6: A Tragedy in Two Acts". Play by W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, 1936.

• Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone. Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

  W. H. Auden

  Dog, Grief, Cutting

  "Funeral Blues" l. 1 (1936)

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