"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible." ― W. H. Auden Topic(s): Good More From W. H. Auden "Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic." "Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one." "Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead." More In Good "For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences."― Sally Ride "Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character."― Heraclitus "One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it… and the journey is always towards the other soul."― David Herbert Lawrence