W. H. Auden Quotes about Feelings

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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

W. H. Auden

People, Feelings, Politics

W H Auden (1981). “Antæus”, Ecco Press

Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.

W. H. Auden

Expression, Feelings, Might

Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.

W. H. Auden

Art, Thinking, Feelings

If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves. The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Br?nnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni.

W. H. Auden

Real, Feelings, Quality