Of all possible subjects travel is the most difficult for an artist as it is the easiest for a journalist.
Of all possible subjects travel is the most difficult for an artist as it is the easiest for a journalist.
Author: W H Auden
A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
When I find myself in the company of scientists I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
When I find myself in the company of scientists I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation a mental or physical barter to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation a mental or physical barter to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders that he is a literary aristocracy of one.
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders that he is a literary aristocracy of one.
Music can be made anywhere is invisible and does not smell.
Music can be made anywhere is invisible and does not smell.
No good opera plot can be sensible for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
No good opera plot can be sensible for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will any marriage happy or unhappy is infinitely more interesting than any romance however passionate.
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will any marriage happy or unhappy is infinitely more interesting than any romance however passionate.
A poet is before anything else a person who is passionately in love with language.
A poet is before anything else a person who is passionately in love with language.
Among those whom I like or admire I can find no common denominator but among those whom I love I can: all of them make me laugh.
Among those whom I like or admire I can find no common denominator but among those whom I love I can: all of them make me laugh.
I'll love you dear I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.
I'll love you dear I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.
Choice of attention – to pay attention to this and ignore that – is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences whatever they may be.
Choice of attention – to pay attention to this and ignore that – is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences whatever they may be.