| Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind. |
| |
- W.H. Auden |
more quotations on [History] |
|
| Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction. |
| |
- W.H. Auden |
more quotations on [History] |
|
| It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. |
| |
- W.H. Auden |
more quotations on [Poetry] [Money] |
|
| A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere. |
| |
- W.H. Auden |
more quotations on [Poetry] |
|
| What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed? |
| |
- W.H. Auden |
more quotations on [Poetry] |
|
| Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. |
| |
- W.H. Auden |
more quotations on [Luck] |
|
| No good opera plot can be sensible:... people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. |
| |
- W.H. Auden |
more quotations on [Music] |
|
| No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. |
| |
- W.H. Auden |
more quotations on [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 |
more quotations on [Laughter] |
|
| A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep. |
| |
- W.H. Auden |
more quotations on [College] |
|
| Dance till the stars come down from the rafters. Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop. |
| |
- W.H. Auden |
more quotations on [Dancing] |
|
| The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected: the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. |
| |
- W.H. Auden |
more quotations on [Body] |
|
| A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish. |
| |
- W.H. Auden |
more quotations on [Daydreaming] |
|
