"In a very ugly and sensible age,..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.”

“The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me”

“Who, being loved, is poor?”

“A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true." - W. H. Auden"A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness...It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.”

“The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.”

“I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.”

“At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.”

“What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? Young son, it argues a distemper'd head So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed: Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie; But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.”

“Count your age with friends but not with years.”