W. H. Auden Quote

The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when to think as an anthropologist.


Collected Poems (ed. Random House Incorporated, 1976)


The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when...

The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when...

The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when...

The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when...