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

Quote by W H Auden

Topics: W. H. Auden Quotes

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...

Art is born of humiliation.

Art is born of humiliation.

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...

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...

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...

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...

Now is the age of anxiety.

Now is the age of anxiety.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

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...

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 that we are not stares back at what we are.

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

For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

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...

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology...

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology...

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.

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...

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...

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,...

Never ask a man where's he's been. If he's out on legitimate business, he doesn't...

Never ask a man where's he's been. If he's out on legitimate business, he doesn't...

I have always thought of Christmas as a good time; a kind, forgiving, generous, pleasant...

I have always thought of Christmas as a good time; a kind, forgiving, generous, pleasant...