#ed

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#almost #barter #begin #both #continue

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? ↗

— W. H. Auden

#asked #could #die #man #now

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#become #goes #immediate #like #music

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#joy #possessed #tail #times #us

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#art #artist #believes #comes #commissioned

It's a very good thing for students also to be exposed to people who aren't film students or film scholars but who work in the world of film. ↗

— Robert Mayer

#exposed #film #good #good thing #people

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#characters #concerned #don quixote #ego #every

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past. ↗

— Berenice Abbott

#once #only #part #past #photographed

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. ↗

— John James Audubon

#children #fathers #given #his #knows

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#developed #faces #like #masks #own