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Posted on January 24, 2018January 24, 2018

Two Views on the Nature of Language: Nietzsche and Auden

Originally posted on anenduringromantic:
“That for which we find words is already dead in our hearts,” says Nietzsche. “There is a kind of contempt in the act of speaking.” Language, then,…

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Posted on January 24, 2018March 9, 2018

Silence and the limits of language

“That for which we find words in something already dead in our hearts. There always is a kind of contempt in the act of speaking.” – Nietzsche, The Twilight of…

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Posted on October 29, 2017

“I have only once encountered pure evil in a person”: Auden on Yeats

Auden’s “In Memory of W B Yeats” is a great tribute poem, especially the closing lines: Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice…

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Posted on May 14, 2017August 22, 2018

“A culture is no better than its woods” – W H Auden, “Bucolics”

(Edit 22nd August 2018 – welcome if you have come here by Googling “a culture is no better than its woods”, you may also be interested in this post about…

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Posted on March 18, 2017August 30, 2018

Yeats on Kipling: “I dislike his works so much that I feel sure it must have something to teach me”

(edit 30th August 2018 – for more on the uneasy relationship between another poet and Yeats, see here.  For a TLS letter which also features Kipling (in a perhaps less than…

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