W. H. Auden

"It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is rightly more important that he eat than that he philosophize."

"It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it."

"Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist."

"Now is the age of anxiety."

"The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living."