W. H. Auden
  • Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  • Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

  • A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

  • 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

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