A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Quote by W H Auden

Topics: Art Quotes, Music Quotes, Poetry Quotes

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money,...

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money,...

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are...

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are...

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.

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of...

In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of...

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them....

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them....

Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.

Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so...

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so...

What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social...

What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social...

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...

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order...

The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order...

Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the...

Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the...

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are...

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are...

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

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

One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say

Health is my expected heaven.

Health is my expected heaven.

A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too...

A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too...

I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover...

I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover...