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W.H. Auden and Sacks' bradykinetic dance
Auden: British poet 1907-1973 | Titan😍
"Man is a bubble-brained creature that said I'm loved therefore I am"? ... And they loved him
🤓Auden's work (mentorship) was formative for his friend Dr. Oliver Sacks (Dante of Neurology)
W.H. Auden and Sacks' bradykinetic dance
Auden: British poet 1907-1973 | Titan😍
"Man is a bubble-brained creature that said I'm loved therefore I am"? ... And they loved him
🤓Auden's work (mentorship) was formative for his friend Dr. Oliver Sacks (Dante of Neurology)
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"The first time I saw him, I was too shy to say anything, and I just gazed at that Jurassic face with awe"
Dr. Sacks😬
"The first time I saw him, I was too shy to say anything, and I just gazed at that Jurassic face with awe"
Dr. Sacks😬
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Neurology is poetry🤓
"Talking to Myself"
(For Oliver Sacks)
W.H. Auden
Please, must enjoy 14:41 minutes of pure depolarizing beauty:😍⤵️
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Neurology is poetry🤓
"Talking to Myself"
(For Oliver Sacks)
W.H. Auden
Please, must enjoy 14:41 minutes of pure depolarizing beauty:😍⤵️
youtube.com
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Auden about our art🧐
"I can remember my father, who was a physician, quoting an aphorism by Sir William Osler: "Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of his disease."
He continues...➡️
Auden about our art🧐
"I can remember my father, who was a physician, quoting an aphorism by Sir William Osler: "Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of his disease."
He continues...➡️
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..."In other words, a doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist" 🤓🦋
..."In other words, a doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist" 🤓🦋
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🤓Auden's work was formative in Sacks' neuro poetry.
🧐Auden on Sacks book Awakenings and therapeutic effects of music:
"As Novalis wrote, "Every sickness is a musical problem; every cure a musical solution" 😍
Auden continues➡️
🤓Auden's work was formative in Sacks' neuro poetry.
🧐Auden on Sacks book Awakenings and therapeutic effects of music:
"As Novalis wrote, "Every sickness is a musical problem; every cure a musical solution" 😍
Auden continues➡️
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"This means that to be a good doctor, a man must also have a good character; he must love his fellow human beings. A doctor who loves other men only in the abstract or regards them simply as a source of income can, however clever, do nothing but harm".🤯
"This means that to be a good doctor, a man must also have a good character; he must love his fellow human beings. A doctor who loves other men only in the abstract or regards them simply as a source of income can, however clever, do nothing but harm".🤯
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"In Memory of Sigmund Freud" ( 1939) W. H. Auden
"Over a grave The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved. Sad is Eros" 🤯😍
Fragment⤵️
"In Memory of Sigmund Freud" ( 1939) W. H. Auden
"Over a grave The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved. Sad is Eros" 🤯😍
Fragment⤵️
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Ode to the Diencephalon (1972) W.H Auden😍
"...the cortical I is a compulsive liar." 🤯
Ode to the Diencephalon (1972) W.H Auden😍
"...the cortical I is a compulsive liar." 🤯
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"Although you be, as I am, one of those
Who feel a Christian ought to write in prose,
For poetry is magic: born in sin, you
May read it to exercise the Gentile in you." Auden
"Although you be, as I am, one of those
Who feel a Christian ought to write in prose,
For poetry is magic: born in sin, you
May read it to exercise the Gentile in you." Auden
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In Memory of W. B Yeats (1939)
"The words of a dead man
Are modified in the guts of the living."🤯🤯😍😍
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In Memory of W. B Yeats (1939)
"The words of a dead man
Are modified in the guts of the living."🤯🤯😍😍
youtube.com
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Auden's advice to Sacks (and to all of us):
"You're going to have to go beyond the clinical… Be metaphorical, be mystical, be whatever you need"
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Auden's advice to Sacks (and to all of us):
"You're going to have to go beyond the clinical… Be metaphorical, be mystical, be whatever you need"
🦋🦋🦋
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