H. Auden
H. Auden
medicine medical states
Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.
marriage interesting romance
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.
new-year years people
The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.
christmas friday easter
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.
marriage two
To make one, there must be two.
healing heart relaxation
In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountain start.
music beautiful simple
The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
dancing grace should
I know nothing, except what everyone knows - if there when Grace dances, I should dance.
relationship goodness easier
Goodness is easier to recognize than to define.
choices hunger
Hunger allows no choice.
travel artist difficult
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.
death men gmos
The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
mistake science drawing
When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.
water soul earth
Water is the soul of the Earth.