It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.
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W. H. AUDEN Our researchers into Public Opinion are content/ That he held the proper opinions for the time of ye... W. H. AUDEN Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their conscience... W. H. AUDEN A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects. W. H. AUDEN I know nothing, except what everyone knows – if there when Graces dances, I should dance. W. H. AUDEN Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a jou... W. H. AUDEN We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know W. H. AUDEN Music is the best means we have of digesting time. W. H. AUDEN We would rather be ruined than changed, We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the... W. H. AUDEN Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say W. H. AUDEN Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of... W. H. AUDEN Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs ... W. H. AUDEN But all the clocks in the city Began to whirr and chime:'O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conq... W. H. AUDEN It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfish... W. H. AUDEN Pleasure is by no means an infallible guide, but it is the least fallible. W. H. AUDEN Poor Poe! At first so forgotten that his grave went without a tomb-stone twenty-six years. . . today... W. H. AUDEN Thou shalt not sit With statisticians nor commit A social science W. H. AUDEN In the nightmare of the dark - All the dogs of Europe bark, And the living nations wait, Each seques... W. H. AUDEN Poetry is the clear expression of mixed feelings. W. H. AUDEN When it comes, will it come without warning/ Just as I'm picking my nose?/ Will it knock on my door ... W. H. AUDEN Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose. W. H. AUDEN If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willful... W. H. AUDEN All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will... W. H. AUDEN Few writers have had less journalistic talent than James, and this is his defect, for the supreme ma... W. H. AUDEN For who can bear to feel himself forgotten? W. H. AUDEN