I know nothing, except what everyone knows if there when Graces dances, I should dance.

Quote by W H Auden

Topics: Dancing Quotes, Grace Quotes, Knowledge Quotes

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one...

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one...

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual...

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual...

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...

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...

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he...

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he...

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.

Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet...

Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet...

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...

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

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

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...

Art is born of humiliation.

Art is born of humiliation.

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

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

When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who...

When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who...

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...

What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does.

What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does.

Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man...

Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man...

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have...

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have...