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

Quote by W H Auden

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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences...

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences...

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...

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...

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they...

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they...

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...

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have...

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have...

Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot...

Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot...

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...

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

We must love one another or die.

We must love one another or die.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of...

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of...

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...

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

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...

We are here to ask for your forgiveness.

We are here to ask for your forgiveness.

Surely the men who submit and the women who submit, and the believing men and...

Surely the men who submit and the women who submit, and the believing men and...