I know nothing, except what everyone knows - if there when Grace dances, I should dance.
W. H. AudenBetween friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
W. H. AudenThe ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
W. H. AudenThe commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.
W. H. AudenThat the speech of self-disclosure should be translatable seems to me very odd, but I am convinced that it is. The conclusion that I draw is that the only quality which all human being without exception possess is uniqueness: any characteristic, on the other hand, which one individual can be recognized as having in common with another, like red hair or the English language, implies the existence of other individual qualities which this classification excludes.
W. H. Auden