W.H. Auden Quotes
A poet`s hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don`t know.
Evil is unspectacular and always human, And shares our bed and eats at our own table.
False enchantment can last a lifetime.
One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
Evil is unspectacular and always human, And shares our bed and eats at our own table.
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don`t know.
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
False enchantment can last a lifetime.
A poet`s hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.
No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
When the Sex War ended with the slaughter of the Grandmothers, / They found a bachelor`s baby suffocating under them; / Somebody called him George and that was the end of it: / They hitched him up to the Army.
Now is the age of anxiety.
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
