No opera plot can be sensible, for in sensible situations people do not
sing.
--W H Auden
sing.
--W H Auden
Related:
- Funny, only sensible people agree with me.
- We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here
for, I don't know.
-- W. H. Auden.... - The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.
- In those whom I like, I can find no common denominato
in those whom I love I can: they all make me laugh. -- W. H. Auden (1907-1973) - American poe... - Ballet: Often the same thing as opera, when a person is inhibited and can not sing, so they dance, or do something that passes for a dance, on the tips of their toes.
- A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere. -- W. H. Aude
- A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. -- W. H. Aude
- The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.
H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling. -- George Orwell... - Those who will not reason, perish in the act.
Those who will not act, perish for that reason.
-- W. H. Auden, _Shorts_...
