Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.

Quote by W H Auden

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We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river...

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river...

You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people...

You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people...

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one...

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one...

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession

Let mortals beware of words For with words we lie Can speak peace When we...

Let mortals beware of words For with words we lie Can speak peace When we...

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a...

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a...

You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at.

You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at.

I know nothing, except what everyone knows if there when Graces dances, I should dance.

I know nothing, except what everyone knows if there when Graces dances, I should dance.

The word 'Intellectual' suggests straight away - A man who's untrue to his wife

The word 'Intellectual' suggests straight away - A man who's untrue to his wife

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has...

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has...

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology...

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology...

Now is the age of anxiety.

Now is the age of anxiety.

I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old...

I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old...

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable...

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable...

The Irish ignore anything they can't drink or punch.

The Irish ignore anything they can't drink or punch.