Lovers have lived so long with giants and elves, they won't believe again in their own size.
W. H. AudenGeniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
W. H. AudenIt has been said that a poem should not mean but be. This is not quite accurate. In a poem, as distinct from many other kinds of verbal societies, meaning and being are identical. A poem might be called a pseudo-person. Like a person, it is unique and addresses the reader personally. On the other hand, like a natural being and unlike a historical person, it cannot lie.
W. H. Auden