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W. H. Auden Quotes
«If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves. . .»
«It's impossible to represent a saint [in Art]. It becomes boring. Perhaps because he is, like the Saturday Evening Post people, in the position of having almost infinitely free will.»
«It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a good patient.»
«Our researchers into Public Opinion are content/ That he held the proper opinions for the time of year;/ When there was peace, he was for peace; when there was war, he went.»
«Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction.»
«Poor Poe! At first so forgotten that his grave went without a tomb-stone twenty-six years. . . today in danger of becoming the life study of a few professors.»
«In the deserts of the heart let the healing fountain start, in the prison of his days teach the free man how to praise»