@AMP_OeAW Οδός Αθηναίων Εφήβων nowadays Οδός Μελίνα Μερκούρη has been the place where #Kallman passed away. Little do we know about Kallman's life in #athens but he seemed to have enjoyed his time there! #auden #stellamusulin

Just read Auden's extraordinary poem In Praise of Limestone for the first time.

"If it form the one landscape that we, the inconstant ones,
Are consistently homesick for, this is chiefly
Because it dissolves in water.
...

The best and worst never stayed here long but sought
Immoderate soils where the beauty was not so external,
The light less public and the meaning of life
Something more than a mad camp."

#poetry #landscape #Auden #soil

> Time that is intolerant
Of the brave and innocent,
And indifferent in a week
To a beautiful physique,
Worships language and forgives
Everyone by whom it lives,
Pardons cowardice, conceit,
Lays its honors at their feet.
Time that with this strange excuse
Pardoned Kipling and his views,
And will pardon Paul Claudel,
Pardons him for writing well....

- https://newrepublic.com/article/113208/wh-auden-poems-september-1-1939-and-memory-wb-yeats

#Poetry #Auden #Yeats #Kipling #writing