I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.

Quote by W H Auden

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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...

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...

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...

Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence,...

Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence,...

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

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

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...

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

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

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

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....

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

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....

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...

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.

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...

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

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...

Art is born of humiliation.

Art is born of humiliation.

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

Let mortals beware of words For with words we lie Can speak peace When we...

Let mortals beware of words For with words we lie Can speak peace When we...

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

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