(1907–1973)
English-born U.S. poet“Aside from purely technical analysis, nothing can be said about music, except when it is bad; when it is good, one can only listen and be grateful.”
more infosource: A Certain World (New York: The Viking Press, 1970), foreword, vii.
category: music
medium: nonfiction
“I do not feel I have been told a fact hitherto unknown to me, but rather, that I have been made conscious of a fact which, unconsciously, I have always known.”
more infosource: Foreword to Sens-Plastique (Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2008), 5.
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category: aphorism, conscious, fact, quotation, unconscious
medium: nonfiction
“Healing is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.”
more infosource: “The Art of Healing,” in Collected Poems ed. by Edward Mendelson (New York: Random House, 2007), 836.
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category: healing, medicine, nature, science
medium: poetry
via: Speaking of Faith
W. H. Auden