In “As I Walked Out One Evening” Auden gives us two memorable lines about the transience of our lives: “In headaches and in worry / Vaguely life leaks away.”
What W. H. Auden Can Do for You by Alexander McCall Smith
when w. h. auden said “evil is unspectacular and always human” and ursula k. leguin said “this is the great treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain”
