The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
W. H. AudenA verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
W. H. AudenThe masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say that all men, left to themselves, become gnostics. They may swagger like peacocks, but in their heart of hearts they all think sex an indignity and wish they could beget themselves on themselves. Hence the aggressive hostility toward women so manifest in most club-car stories.
W. H. AudenWe are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
W. H. Auden