W. H. Auden

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.