More From W. H. Auden
- "What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish."
- "The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."
- "‘Healing,’ Papa would tell me, ‘is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.’"
More In Death
- "I think the primary message to the world is that the United States is going to remain the strongest military power in the world."― Leon Panetta
- "I don’t think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There’s always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent."― Jesse Ventura
- "I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand."― Benjamin Franklin