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.
Weitere Zitate von W. H. Auden
Zum Autor"The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living."
"Now is the age of anxiety."
"Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist."
"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."