“Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembere...” — W. H. Auden Quote

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.

The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write, while very few men are taught to draw or paint or write music.

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.

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

I'm comedy's forgotten nearly man.

They think because they have put my husband on an island that he will be forgotten. They are wrong. The harder they try to silence him, the louder I will become.

Labour have long since forgotten that people work hard to pay their taxes and support our welfare system.

Where a new guy may only know one or two ways to do something, I know all of the moves, and I've forgotten more stuff than the newer guys might even know.

I feel that in the music industry there are so many artists it's easy to be forgotten because it's so cluttered.