Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
W. H. AudenDesire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.
W. H. AudenThe commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.
W. H. Auden