W. H. Auden Quotes About Sorrow

Quotes about: Sorrow

• There was still gold and silver in the mountains,
  And hunger was a more immediate sorrow

  W. H. Auden

  Sorrow, Gold, Mountain

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

  W. H. Auden

  Cities, Honor, Sorrow

• The camera may do justice to laughter, but must degrade sorrow.

  W. H. Auden

  Laughter, Justice, Sorrow

• About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.

  W. H. Auden

  Suffering, Sorrow, Window

  "Musee des Beaux Arts" l. 1 (1940)

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