I don’t really think that women should go around with a social group of queers. All right, the people are more interesting, the conversation wittier, but it does terrible things for the girls’ egos because they find themselves in a society where they are really not needed. They feel themselves in an important sense left […]
Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes
The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews Not to be born is the best for man The second best is a formal order The dance’s pattern, dance while you can. Dance, dance, for the figure is easy The tune is catching and will not stop Dance till the stars come down with […]
Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
The are two things I don’t like. To see women drinking hard liquor and to see them standing at bars without escorts. Women should drink port with lemon. Oh, after you’ve been riding or something like that, you can have something stronger. But in general, no.
Nobody can honestly think of himself as a strong character because, however successful he may be in overcoming them, he is necessarily aware of the doubts and temptations that accompany every important choice.
Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life.
All the possibilities It had to reject are What give life and warmth to An actual character; The roots of wit and charm tap Secret springs of sorrow, Every brilliant doctor Hides a murderer.
In general, when reading a scholarly critic, one profits more from his quotations than from his comments.
Our researchers into Public Opinion are content That he held the proper opinions for the time of year; When there was peace, he was for peace: when there was war, he went. He was married and added five children to the population, Which our Eugenist says was the right number for a parent of his […]
Well, so that is that. Now we must dismantle the tree, Putting the decorations back into their cardboard boxes – Some have got broken – and carrying them up to the attic. The holly and the mistletoe must be traken down and burnt, And the children got ready for school. There are enough Left-overs to […]
