If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.

Quote by W H Auden

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Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say

Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet...

Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet...

Now is the age of anxiety.

Now is the age of anxiety.

All that we are not stares back at what we are.

All that we are not stares back at what we are.

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he...

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he...

The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order...

The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order...

Let mortals beware of words For with words we lie Can speak peace When we...

Let mortals beware of words For with words we lie Can speak peace When we...

You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at.

You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at.

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

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.

We must love one another or die.

We must love one another or die.

No hero is mortal till he dies.

No hero is mortal till he dies.

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...

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...

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so...

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so...

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out...

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out...

One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

I know nothing, except what everyone knows if there when Graces dances, I should dance.

I know nothing, except what everyone knows if there when Graces dances, I should dance.

There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.

There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you...

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you...