• About suffering they were never wrong,
• The Old Masters: how well they understood
• its human position; how it takes place
• While someone else is eating or opening a window
• or just walking dully along ;
• [...]
• In Brughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
• Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
• Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
• But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone

— auden, 1-4 / 14-17 musée des beaux arts