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

Quote by W H Auden

Topics: W. H. Auden Quotes

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...

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

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...

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river...

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river...

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...

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate...

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate...

He was my North, my South, my East and West.

He was my North, my South, my East and West.

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

We must love one another or die.

We must love one another or die.

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

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

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among...

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among...

Now is the age of anxiety.

Now is the age of anxiety.

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called...

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called...

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

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

You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference...

You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference...

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.

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...

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

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

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.

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

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