H. Auden
H. Auden
life art beer
In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite and loving one's neighbor.
ideas march clear
History marches to the drum of a clear idea.
love character mean
A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist. This means that in order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character, that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own.
heart bears forgotten
And none will hear the postman’s knock Without a quickening of the heart. For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
smell doe invisible
Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
funny music people
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
children recipes neurosis
Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.
rain cake complaining
My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
inspirational funny helping-others
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
funny-friendship funny-best-friend differences
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
eye stories more-than-meets-the-eye
There's always another story. There's more than meets the eye.
inspirational mind unconscious
The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
lonely
To be free is often to be lonely.
poetry professors poetry-is
What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?