W. H. Auden Quotes About Mistakes

Quotes about: Mistakes

• When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

  W. H. Auden

  Mistake, Science, Drawing

  Dyer's Hand (1963) "The Poet and the City"

• Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a woman when in fact she is my mother, that this person is a chambermaid when it is a young nobleman in disguise, that this well-dressed young man is rich when he is really a penniless adventurer, or that if I do this such and such a result will follow when in fact it results in something very different. All good drama has two movements, first the making of the mistake, then the discovery that it was a mistake.

  W. H. Auden

  Mother, Mistake, Drama

• The friends who met here and embraced are gone, Each to his own mistake.

  W. H. Auden

  Mistake, Gone, Mets

• Drama is based on the Mistake.

  W. H. Auden

  Mistake, Drama

• The true men of action in our time those who transform the world are not the politicians and statesmen but the scientists. Unfortunately poetry cannot celebrate them because their deeds are concerned with things, not persons, and are therefore speechless. When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Mistake, Science

  Dyer's Hand (1963) "The Poet and the City"

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