Famous Quotes / W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden: "To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention -- on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God -- that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer."
Attention | Children | Completely | Concentrates |
Context | Desires | Forgets | Geometrical |
Idol | Landscape | Oneself | Other |
Poem | Pray | Prayer | Praying |
Primary | Problem | Schoolteacher | Secular |
Someone | Something | Task | Teach |
Technique | True | Whenever |