W. H. Auden Quotes About Honor

Quotes about: Honor

• We honor founders of these starving cities,
  Whose honor is the image of our sorrow.

  W. H. Auden

  Cities, Honor, Sorrow

• Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the horizontal one

  W. H. Auden

  Men, Honor, Horizontal

  'To Christopher Isherwood' (1930)

• One demands two things of a poem. Firstly, it must be a well-made verbal object that does honor to the language in which it is written. Secondly, it must say something significant about a reality common to us all, but perceived from a unique perspective. What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.

  W. H. Auden

  Unique, Reality, Two

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