When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

Quote by W H Auden

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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

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...

The word 'Intellectual' suggests straight away - A man who's untrue to his wife

The word 'Intellectual' suggests straight away - A man who's untrue to his wife

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out...

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out...

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

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

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...

Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet...

Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet...

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

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

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

No hero is mortal till he dies.

No hero is mortal till he dies.

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...

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

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

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

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.

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more...

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more...

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 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.

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...

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

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

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

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