105 Quotations by W. H. Auden
- 61. Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. ...
- 62. No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
- 63. No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
- 64. No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
- 65. No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
- 66. No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
- 67. No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the ...
- 68. No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the ...
- 69. Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to ...
- 70. Of course, behaviorism works. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a f ...
- 71. One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
- 72. One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.
- 73. Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Para ...
- 74. Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.
- 75. Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of charac ...
- 76. Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.
- 77. Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their aff ...
- 78. Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinkin ...
- 79. Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
- 80. Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they s ...
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