I hadn't come across that Auden verse before. I wish I had known of it when I was teaching school students. I was continually telling them to find and then pursue what they loved (but get qualified first!). It would have been good to have been supported by a quotation from a poet
Yes! The words from poets are sometimes sheer perfection. Interestingly, a movie that shares the same sentiment as Auden's verse is "Joe Versus the Volcano" (1990):
“Nobody knows anything. We’ll take this leap and we’ll see. We’ll jump and we’ll see. That’s life.”
I hadn't come across that Auden verse before. I wish I had known of it when I was teaching school students. I was continually telling them to find and then pursue what they loved (but get qualified first!). It would have been good to have been supported by a quotation from a poet
Yes! The words from poets are sometimes sheer perfection. Interestingly, a movie that shares the same sentiment as Auden's verse is "Joe Versus the Volcano" (1990):
“Nobody knows anything. We’ll take this leap and we’ll see. We’ll jump and we’ll see. That’s life.”
From:
A Journey Through Great Travel Films
https://moviewise.substack.com/p/a-journey-through-great-travel-films
Thanks, Mary, for sharing your intimate personal connection to this film. I'm going to give it a look right now!