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

Quote by W H Auden

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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...

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...

We must love one another or die.

We must love one another or die.

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 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...

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

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...

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

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

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

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.

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...

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...

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.

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

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

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

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...

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...

I ask for your forgiveness. I feel so miserable that it's difficult even to say...

I ask for your forgiveness. I feel so miserable that it's difficult even to say...

It is not (fit) for the Prophet and those who believe that they should ask...

It is not (fit) for the Prophet and those who believe that they should ask...