A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Quote by W H Auden

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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are...

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are...

You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference...

You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference...

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...

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God...

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God...

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

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

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.

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say

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,...

Healing, Papa would tell me, is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing...

Healing, Papa would tell me, is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing...

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as...

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as...

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.

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to...

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to...

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...

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....

Now is the age of anxiety.

Now is the age of anxiety.

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...

As long as our social order regards the good of institutions rather than the good...

As long as our social order regards the good of institutions rather than the good...

I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the...

I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the...