Let mortals beware of words For with words we lie Can speak peace When we mean war But song is true Let music for peace Be the paradigm For peace means change At the right time

Quote by W H Auden

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Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual...

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual...

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...

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me

I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

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...

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are...

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are...

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to...

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to...

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money,...

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money,...

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

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

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...

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has...

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has...

We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here...

We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here...

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...

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to...

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to...

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

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.

Dance to the tune that is played

Dance to the tune that is played

I got started dancing because I knew it was one way to meet girls.

I got started dancing because I knew it was one way to meet girls.

I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life...

I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life...

Nothing is new, all is rehash.

Nothing is new, all is rehash.