“No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.”
— W. H. Auden
Author: W. H. Auden
Category: music
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What the mass media offers is not
“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.”
— W. H. Auden
Author: W. H. Auden
Category: food
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible
“Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.”
— W. H. Auden
Author: W. H. Auden
Category: music
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The words of a dead man are
“The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.”
— W. H. Auden
Author: W. H. Auden
Category: death
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History is, strictly speaking, the study of
“History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.”
— W. H. Auden
Author: W. H. Auden
Category: history
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It is a sad fact about our
“It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.”
— W. H. Auden
Author: W. H. Auden
Category: art
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What the mass media offers is not
“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.”
— W. H. Auden
Author: W. H. Auden
Category: art
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective;
“A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.”
— W. H. Auden
Author: W. H. Auden
Category: music
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Murder is unique in that it abolishes
“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.”
— W. H. Auden
Author: W. H. Auden
Category: society
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Learn from your dreams what you lack.
“Learn from your dreams what you lack.”
— W. H. Auden
Author: W. H. Auden
Category: dreams
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A poet is, before anything else, a
“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.”
— W. H. Auden
Author: W. H. Auden
Category: love
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