In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

Quote by W H Auden

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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own...

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own...

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...

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money,...

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money,...

You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at.

You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at.

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.

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

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

Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really...

Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really...

We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

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...

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

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

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...

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

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...

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

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

God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.

God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.

Now is the age of anxiety.

Now is the age of anxiety.

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....

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...

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to...

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to...

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.