Quote #148,047

“The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; …” — W. H. Auden

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
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