Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

Quote by W H Auden

Topics: Impatience Quotes, Sin Quotes

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

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...

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...

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

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....

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...

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.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

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...

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our...

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our...

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of...

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of...

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more...

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more...

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

Art is born of humiliation.

Art is born of humiliation.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons...

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons...

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

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

Now is the age of anxiety.

Now is the age of anxiety.

Anxiety about the future never profits; we feel no evil until it comes, and when...

Anxiety about the future never profits; we feel no evil until it comes, and when...

That mini heart attack you get when you reach in your pocket and your phone...

That mini heart attack you get when you reach in your pocket and your phone...