No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

Quote by W H Auden

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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...

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...

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.

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

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

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.

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...

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

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

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to...

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to...

It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too...

It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too...

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man...

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man...

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...

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

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 commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession

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

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

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

No hero is immortal till he dies

No hero is immortal till he dies

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.

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is...

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is...

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...

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...