W. H. Auden Quotes about Evil

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Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

W. H. Auden

Evil, Politics, Imagine

"A Certain World". Book by W. H. Auden, 1970.

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

W. H. Auden

Learning, Israel, Evil

"September 1, 1939" l. 19 (1939)

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

W. H. Auden

Evil, Bed, Tables

"Herman Melville" l. 17 (1939)

Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from luther untill noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occured at linz what huge imago made a psychopathic god. i and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return.

W. H. Auden

Evil, Mad, Culture

"September 1, 1939" l. 19 (1939)