The Enchafèd Flood Quotes

“The religious definition of truth is not that it is universal but that it is absolute.”
― W.H. Auden, The Enchafèd Flood: or, The Romantic Iconography of the Sea

“Nature and Passion are powerful, but they are also full of grief. True happiness would have the calm and order of bourgeois routine without its utilitarian ignobility and boredom.”
― W.H. Auden, The Enchafèd Flood: or, The Romantic Iconography of the Sea

“We live in a new age in which the artist neither can have such a unique heroic importance nor believes in the Art-God enough to desire it, an age, for instance, when the necessity of dogma is once more recognised, not as the contradiction of reason and feeling but as their ground and foundation.”
― W.H. Auden, The Enchafèd Flood: or, The Romantic Iconography of the Sea

“Time is not the ultimately overwhelming enemy, but the temporary element through which men move towards immortality.”
― W.H. Auden, The Enchafèd Flood: or, The Romantic Iconography of the Sea