W. H. Auden Quotes About History

Quotes about: History

• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  W. H. Auden

  Music, Art, Philosophy

  Quoted in Robert Craft Stravinsky: Chronicle of a Friendship (1972).

• Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction.

  W. H. Auden

  Children, Hero, History

• History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

  W. H. Auden

  History, Answers, Study

• Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.

  W. H. Auden

  Past, Men, History

  Dyer's Hand (1963) "D. H. Lawrence"

• Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another...

  W. H. Auden

  People, History, Firsts

  "The Dyer's Hand". "The Listener" Magazine, June 30, 1955.

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