Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
W.H. AudenHe was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
W.H. AudenTags: entertainment consumerism television mass-media
Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.
W.H. AudenNo opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
W.H. AudenAll sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
W.H. AudenIn times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
W.H. AudenTags: dogs
Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.
W.H. AudenThe friends who met here and embraced are gone,
Each to his own mistake;
Tags: friendship decisions lifestyle
Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.
W.H. AudenTags: christmas crucifixion auschwitz easter good-friday
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