The older lives like not to be stood in rows or at right angles.
Quotes by W.H. Auden
Acts of injustice done
Between the setting and the rising sun
In history lie like bones, each one.
All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation.
Geniuses are the luckiest mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.
You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at.
Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance.
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work "comes" to him.

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