The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish: What mad Nijinsky wrote About Diaghilev Is true of the normal heart; For the error bred in the bone Of each woman and each man Craves what it cannot have; Not universal love But to be loved alone.
W. H. AudenFrom beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of his own hands.
W. H. AudenYou must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.
W. H. Auden