No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

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About W. H. Auden

Portrait of W. H. Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden ( WIST-ən HYOO AWD-ən; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was a British-American poet. Auden's poetry is noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form, and content. Some of his best known poems...

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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

Routine in an intelligent person is a sign of ambition.

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May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that "faith" is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

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.

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More quotations tagged with “opera”

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

—Sir Edward Appleton

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Bed is the poor man's opera.

—Italian proverb

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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back, and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

—Robert Benchley

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History

5 May 2015 Added