W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand Quotes
Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.
no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like, ' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.
He who despises himself, nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser. (Nietz