W. H. Auden

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

A professor is someone who talks in someone else’s sleep…

Choice of attention – to pay attention to this and ignore that – is to the inner…

Music is the best means we have of digesting time…

Healing,’ Papa would tell me, ‘is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing…

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

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among…

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money…

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is…

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic…

Learn from your dreams what you lack…

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say…

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences…

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of…

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has…