W. H. AudenA collection of 32 posts

Travel

Of all possible subjects travel is the most difficult for an artist as it is t...

Teacher

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

Science

When I find myself in the company of scientists I feel like a shabby curate who...

Relationship

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutu...

Poetry

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry ...

Music

Music can be made anywhere is invisible and does not smell.

Music

No good opera plot can be sensible for people do not sing when they are feeling...

Marriage

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

Love

A poet is before anything else a person who is passionately in love with langu...

Love

Among those whom I like or admire I can find no common denominator but among t...