W. H. Auden Quotes

Unfortunately for the modern dramatist, during the past century and a half the public realm has been less and less of a realm where human deeds are done, and more and more of a realm of mere human behavior. The contemporary dramatist has lost his natural subject.

W. H. Auden

Quotes to Explore

I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.

Laura Linney
- Work
- Old
- Lucky
There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

M. Scott Peck
- Life
- Community
- Peace
If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.

Orhan Pamuk
- People
- Up
- Art
I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.

Rachel Kushner
- Like
- Him
- Often
I love 'Annie Hall'; I will always come back to that film again and again. Diane Keaton has been such an inspiration to me. She always brings humour, but complexity, and I love watching her on screen. She's got real charisma.

Felicity Jones
Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.

Naomi Klein
- War
- History
- Promise