Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.
W. H. Auden
Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.
W. H. Auden
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
One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
W. H. Auden
No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
W. H. Auden
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
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
A poet’s hope to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.
W. H. Auden
We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don’t know.
W. H. Auden
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.
W. H. Auden