Showing posts with label W. H. Auden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label W. H. Auden. Show all posts

Monday, June 28, 2010

A Certain World

Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction.

The Dyer's Hand

Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.