Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

Quote by W H Auden

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In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of...

In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of...

Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.

Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-Second Street Uncertain and afraid As the...

I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-Second Street Uncertain and afraid As the...

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it...

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it...

What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social...

What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social...

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own...

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own...

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God...

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God...

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

Art is born of humiliation.

Art is born of humiliation.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to...

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to...

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate...

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate...

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them....

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them....

Now is the age of anxiety.

Now is the age of anxiety.

Now is the age of anxiety.

Now is the age of anxiety.

I have learned from an early age to abjured the use of meat, and the...

I have learned from an early age to abjured the use of meat, and the...

I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.

I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.

Age is honourable and youth is noble.

Age is honourable and youth is noble.