No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
Quote by W. H. Auden
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No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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W. H. Auden Quotes
- Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.
- What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
- Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.
- Acts of injustice done, Between the setting and the rising sun, In history lie like bones, each one.
- When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
- False enchantment can last a lifetime.
- Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
- No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
- Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from luther untill noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occured at linz what huge imago made a psychopathic god. i and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return.
- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can all of them make me laugh.
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- There are three classes of men lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
- A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
- Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
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- It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.
- The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.
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