W H Auden Famous Quotes
"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."
"What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish."
Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.
"A poet's hope to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere."
"We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know."
"No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."
"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest."
"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."
One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
W H Auden Quotations
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
Henry Kissinger
"There comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."
Conan Doyle
"When you come to the end of everything you know And are faced with the darkness of the unknown, Faith is knowing one of two things will happen. Either there will be something solid for you to stand on, Or you will be taught how to fly."
Barbara J Winter
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don Marquis
Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational.
Charles M Schulz
"Promote yourself, but do not demote another."
Israel Salanter
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein
"The air is precious to the red man, for all things share the same breath-the beast, the tree, the man, they all share the same breath. The white man does not seem to notice the air he breathes. Like a man dying for many days, he is numb to the stench."
Chief Seattle
No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.
Athenus
"We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a *part* of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a *part* of Europe."
Dan Quayle