When the Sex War ended with the slaughter of the Grandmothers, / They found a bachelor's baby suffocating under them; / Somebody called him George and that was the end of it: / They hitched him up to the Army.

Quote by W H Auden

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What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to...

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to...

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...

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most...

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most...

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

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.

I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-Second Street Uncertain and afraid As the...

I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-Second Street Uncertain and afraid As the...

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

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

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

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.

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

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

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...

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...

No hero is immortal till he dies

No hero is immortal till he dies

No hero is mortal till he dies.

No hero is mortal till he dies.

Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot...

Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot...

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...

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...

All for one and one for all

All for one and one for all

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking,...

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking,...