Frases de W. H. Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden que escrevia como W. H. Auden, foi um poeta anglo-americano, tido como um dos grandes autores do século XX.Auden cresceu em e perto de Birmingham, em uma família de classe média de profissionais que liam literatura inglesa na Christ Church, em Oxford. Seus primeiros poemas, escritos no final de 1920 e início da década de 1930, alternados estilos modernos de telegráficos e fluentes tradicionais, foram escritas em um tom intenso e dramático, e estabeleceu sua reputação como um poeta político de esquerda e profeta. Ele tornou-se desconfortável nesse papel posteriormente em 1930, e abandonou-a depois que ele se mudou para os Estados Unidos em 1939, onde se tornou um cidadão americano em 1946. Seus poemas em 1940 exploraram temas religiosos e éticos de uma forma menos dramática do que seus trabalhos anteriores, mas ainda combinando formas tradicionais e estilos com novas formas concebidas por Auden para si mesmo. Na década de 1950 e 1960, muitos de seus poemas foram voltados para as formas em que palavras reveladas escondiam as emoções, e ele tomou um interesse particular por escritos libretos de ópera, uma forma ideal para a expressão direta de sentimentos fortes.Para os jovens intelectuais de esquerda ele foi a grande voz da década de 1930, "denunciando os males da sociedade capitalista, mas também alertando para a ascensão do totalitarismo": algumas vezes demasiadamente político, sempre implicitamente radical e incômodo, pela frequência com que lançava mão, em seus poemas, de espiões, bordéis e impulsos reprimidos - sua homossexualidade estava por trás de várias referências pessoais, aparecendo insistentemente em sua poesia. Assim que T. S. Eliot publicou a primeira coletânea de Auden, Poemas , ele foi imediatamente reconhecido como porta-voz de sua geração. Filho de médico, Auden foi educado na Escola Gresham e na Christ Church, em Oxford, onde se tornou o líder de uma "gangue" formada por Stephen Spender, Louis MacNeice e Cecil Day-Lewis . Logo começou a colaborar com um amigo da escola preparatória, Christopher Isherwood, em peças esquerdistas que misturavam farsa e poesia. Em 1939, mudou-se com Isherwood para a América, onde conheceu aquele que se tornaria seu companheiro, Chester Kallman, com quem anos mais tarde escreveu libretos de ópera, incluindo The Rake's Progress, para Stravinsky.

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✵ 21. Fevereiro 1907 – 29. Setembro 1973   •   Outros nomes W.H. Auden
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W. H. Auden: 129   citações 8   Curtidas

W. H. Auden Frases famosas

“Ser livre é com freqüência estar sozinho.”

to be free is often to be lonely
Selected poetry of W. H. Auden - Página 57, Volume 102 de Vintage international, Wystan Hugh Auden - Vintage Books, 1971

“Gatos podem ser engraçados, mas têm os modos mais estranhos de mostrar sua alegria. O nosso sempre urinou em nossos sapatos.”

Cats can be very funny, and have the oddest ways of showing they're glad to see you. Rudimace always peed on our shoes.
citado em Reflections international: the TV & TS magazine‎ - Página 28, de TransEssex (Organization) - Publicado por TransEssex, 1999

“O Público e eu sabemos o que toda criança aprende, aqueles a quem se faz mal fazem mal em retorno.”

I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return
W. H. Auden, em 1 de setembro de 1939, conforme citado em "The centre of things: political fiction from Disraeli to the present‎" - Página 189, de Christopher Harvie - Publicado por Unwin Hyman, 1991, ISBN 0044455925, 9780044455929 - 245 páginas

W. H. Auden: Frases em inglês

“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 livro The Dyer's Hand

"The Poet & The City", p. 81
The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays (1962)

“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.”

Squares and Oblongs, in Poets at Work (1948), p. 170

“Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.”

W. H. Auden livro The Dyer's Hand

"Reading", p. 10
The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays (1962)

“The idea of a sacrificial victim is not new; but that it should be the victim who chooses to be sacrificed, and the sacrificers who deny that any sacrifice has been made, is very new.”

W. H. Auden livro Forewords and Afterwords

Assessing St. Augustine's perspectives in "Augustus to Augustine", p. 37
Forewords and Afterwords (1973)
Contexto: Man … always acts either self-loving, just for the hell of it, or God-loving, just for the heaven of it; his reasons, his appetites are secondary motivations. Man chooses either life or death, but he chooses; everything he does, from going to the toilet to mathematical speculation, is an act of religious worship, either of God or of himself.
Lastly by the classical apotheosis of Man-God, Augustine opposes the Christian belief in Jesus Christ, the God-Man. The former is a Hercules who compels recognition by the great deeds he does in establishing for the common people in the law, order and prosperity they cannot establish for themselves, by his manifestation of superior power; the latter reveals to fallen man that God is love by suffering, i. e. by refusing to compel recognition, choosing instead to be a victim of man's self-love. The idea of a sacrificial victim is not new; but that it should be the victim who chooses to be sacrificed, and the sacrificers who deny that any sacrifice has been made, is very new.

“One cannot review a bad book without showing off.”

W. H. Auden livro The Dyer's Hand

"Reading", p. 11
The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays (1962)

“Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.”

W. H. Auden livro The Dyer's Hand

"The Virgin & The Dynamo", p. 62
The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays (1962)

“About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters.”

W. H. Auden Musée des Beaux Arts

Fonte: Musée des Beaux Arts (1938), Lines 1–2

“We are all on earth to help others. What on earth the others are here for, I can't imagine.”

Often cited as by Auden without attribution, this quotation has been traced to John Foster Hall (1867-1945), an English comedian known as the Reverend Vivian Foster, Vicar of Mirth. Full history with sound recording http://audensociety.org/vivianfoster.html
Misattributed

“A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.”

Often attributed to Auden, but he was repeating an anonymous joke; he did not claim to have originated it. See "Who Wrote Auden's Definition of a Professor?" http://www.audensociety.org/definition.html
Misattributed

“No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.”

W. H. Auden livro The Dyer's Hand

"Notes on Music and Opera", p. 472
The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays (1962)

“I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.”

W. H. Auden September 1, 1939

Fonte: September 1, 1939 (1939), Lines 19–22

“No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.”

Not by Auden; sources from the 1980s attribute it to the Rev. W. A. Nance (the name seems to have been confused with Auden's).
Misattributed

“What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.”

W. H. Auden livro The Dyer's Hand

"The Poet & The City", p. 83
The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays (1962)
Contexto: What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. This is bad for everyone; the majority lose all genuine taste of their own, and the minority become cultural snobs.

“Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity.”

W. H. Auden livro Forewords and Afterwords

"A Poet of the Actual", p. 266
Forewords and Afterwords (1973)
Contexto: Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity. Of all novelists in any country, Trollope best understands the role of money. Compared with him even Balzac is a romantic.

“A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it.”

W. H. Auden livro Forewords and Afterwords

"A Poet of the Actual", p. 265
Forewords and Afterwords (1973)
Contexto: A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it. But it is unbecoming in an artist to talk about inspiration; that is the reader's business.

“Machines have no political opinions, but they have profound political effects. They demand a strict regimentation of time, and, by abolishing the need for manual skill, have transformed the majority of the population from workers into laborers.”

W. H. Auden livro Forewords and Afterwords

"A Russian Aesthete", p. 279
Forewords and Afterwords (1973)
Contexto: Machines have no political opinions, but they have profound political effects. They demand a strict regimentation of time, and, by abolishing the need for manual skill, have transformed the majority of the population from workers into laborers. There are, that is to say, fewer and fewer jobs which a man can find a pride and satisfaction in doing well, more and more which have no interest in themselves and can be valued only for the money they provide.

“He suffers from one great literary defect, which is often found in lonely geniuses: he never knows when to stop.”

W. H. Auden livro Forewords and Afterwords

On Søren Kierkegaard, in "A Knight of Doleful Countenance", p. 192
Forewords and Afterwords (1973)
Contexto: He suffers from one great literary defect, which is often found in lonely geniuses: he never knows when to stop. Lonely people are apt to fall in love with the sound of their own voice, as Narcissus fell in love with his reflection, not out of conceit but out of despair of finding another who will listen and respond.

“I do not believe an artist's life throws much light upon his works. I do believe, however, that, more often than most people realize, his works may throw light upon his life.”

W. H. Auden livro Forewords and Afterwords

"The Greatest of the Monsters", p. 247
Forewords and Afterwords (1973)
Contexto: I said earlier that I do not believe an artist's life throws much light upon his works. I do believe, however, that, more often than most people realize, his works may throw light upon his life. An artist with certain imaginative ideas in his head may then involve himself in relationships which are congenial to them.

“The mystics themselves do not seem to have believed their physical and mental sufferings to be a sign of grace, but it is unfortunate that it is precisely physical manifestations which appeal most to the religiosity of the mob.”

W. H. Auden livro Forewords and Afterwords

"The Protestant Mystics", p. 72
Forewords and Afterwords (1973)
Contexto: The mystics themselves do not seem to have believed their physical and mental sufferings to be a sign of grace, but it is unfortunate that it is precisely physical manifestations which appeal most to the religiosity of the mob. A woman might spend twenty years nursing lepers without having any notice taken of her, but let her once exhibit the stigmata or live for long periods on nothing but the Host and water, and in no time the crowd will be clamoring for her beatification.

“Man … always acts either self-loving, just for the hell of it, or God-loving, just for the heaven of it; his reasons, his appetites are secondary motivations.”

W. H. Auden livro Forewords and Afterwords

Assessing St. Augustine's perspectives in "Augustus to Augustine", p. 37
Forewords and Afterwords (1973)
Contexto: Man … always acts either self-loving, just for the hell of it, or God-loving, just for the heaven of it; his reasons, his appetites are secondary motivations. Man chooses either life or death, but he chooses; everything he does, from going to the toilet to mathematical speculation, is an act of religious worship, either of God or of himself.
Lastly by the classical apotheosis of Man-God, Augustine opposes the Christian belief in Jesus Christ, the God-Man. The former is a Hercules who compels recognition by the great deeds he does in establishing for the common people in the law, order and prosperity they cannot establish for themselves, by his manifestation of superior power; the latter reveals to fallen man that God is love by suffering, i. e. by refusing to compel recognition, choosing instead to be a victim of man's self-love. The idea of a sacrificial victim is not new; but that it should be the victim who chooses to be sacrificed, and the sacrificers who deny that any sacrifice has been made, is very new.