Quote by W. H. Auden (1907-1973)

• To save your world you asked this man to die;
  Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

• 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.

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

• We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.

• Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

• A poet's hope: to be,
  like some valley cheese,
  local, but prized elsewhere.