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“No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.”
— W. H. Auden  ·  Music
“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.”
— W. H. Auden  ·  Laughter
“To save your world you asked this man to die; Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?”
— W. H. Auden  ·  No category
“We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.”
— W. H. Auden  ·  No category
“A poet's hope: to be,like some valley cheese,local, but prized elsewhere.”
— W. H. Auden  ·  Poetry
“Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.”
— W. H. Auden  ·  Books
“One cannot review a bad book without showing off.”
— W. H. Auden  ·  Criticism
“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.”
— W. H. Auden  ·  No category
“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.”
— W. H. Auden  ·  No category
“Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.”
— W. H. Auden  ·  No category
“A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.”
— W. H. Auden  ·  No category
“Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.”
— W. H. Auden  ·  No category
“False enchantment can last a lifetime.”
— W. H. Auden  ·  No category
“Evil is unspectacular and always human, And shares our bed and eats at our own table.”
— W. H. Auden  ·  No category
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