Word: auden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jazz quarter unloads some drums from a van and starts setting up behind the Newtowne monument, Merwin says, "You know, Auden said, 'Poetry makes nothing happen.' That's something everybody quotes and it may or may not be true...
...know Auden said this wonderful thing. He said, "You always write out of what you know, but you don't know what you know, but you try to write it." It's a very wise thing to have said. Much wiser than the thing about poetry making nothing happen...
...this magic, righteous. And thus a brute killer portrays himself as a victim, who is therefore infinitely justified. Ethnic cleansing is merely injured virtue catching up. Nothing is more empowering, as they say, than being a victim. It is the Rolls-Royce of self-justifications, a plenary indulgence. W.H. Auden described it as if it were one of Newton's laws: "Those to whom evil is done/ do evil in return...
...Auden had it right about Spain: "That arid square, that fragment nipped off from hot/ Africa, soldered so crudely to inventive Europe." One thinks of this while visiting "Al-Andalus: The Art of Islamic Spain," the new | contribution to the 500th anniversary of Columbus by New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. For a long time, Spain and North Africa were...
...that sense, all forms of talk therapy can be considered a Freudian legacy. Even the sex obsession of today's society can be read as evidence that contemporary culture indirectly reflects Freud's deepest concerns. Perhaps W.H. Auden got it right after all in his poetic tribute to the Viennese master, written a few months after Freud's death...