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

Quote by W H Auden

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If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons...

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons...

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...

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his...

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his...

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here...

We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here...

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out...

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out...

All that we are not stares back at what we are.

All that we are not stares back at what we are.

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...

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

Now is the age of anxiety.

Now is the age of anxiety.

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...

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.

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most...

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most...

Art is born of humiliation.

Art is born of humiliation.

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

We must love one another or die.

We must love one another or die.

Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some...

Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some...

Love lasteth long as the money endureth

Love lasteth long as the money endureth

N bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing...

N bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing...