"...not Universal love, but to be loved alone."
Once again, Auden's lines run through my head arousing thoughts, connecting me with my feelings, creating new notions... I used the verse as a prompt in the Prompts blog and reprinted the entire poem here, and now revisit it again. In the past week events move me on from Auden's wistful yearning to another: It is the craving of every human soul, as much as to be loved as individual, to have another to whom to equally give love, and be happily, ungrudgingly received from. We enter into our... Sign in to see full entry.