A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish. – W.H. Auden
“Healing,” Papa would tell me, “is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.” – W.H. Auden
Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. – W.H. Auden
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility. – Martin Luther King, Jr.