Quote by W. H. Auden Download Open image ““No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.”” — W. H. Auden ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“At the opera, the music makes no sense; here in the street it has just the right demented touch to give it poignancy.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Opera has the power to warn you that you have wasted your life. You haven't acted on your desires. You've suffered a stunted, vicarious… — Wayne Koestenbaum Copy Share Image
Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out. — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
“Pretend you're not alone, Like you are center stage on Broadway. 'Cause when you're on your own a little opera goes a long way.” — Sky Sailing Adam Young Copy Share Image
The idea is not to have one great singer surrounded by a bunch of nit wits. When the others are good, too, that's when… — Richard Bonynge Copy Share Image
But Opera Man, I go, 'Oh, crap! Why didn't I think of that?' Because I could sing fake opera pretty good. — Jon Lovitz Copy Share Image
“In fact, is the idea of a serious comparison of American musicals and opera really so outrageous?” — Lawrence W. Levine Copy Share Image
Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Why doesn't the United States take over the monarchy and unite with England? England does have important assets. Naturally the longer you wait, the… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at New styles of architecture, a change of heart. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Most poetry is the utterance of a man in some state of passion, love, joy, grief, rage, etc., and no doubt this is as… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to believe It… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
