History is strictly speaking the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
History is strictly speaking the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
Author: W H Auden
Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.
Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
May it not be that just as we have to have faith in Him God has to have faith in us and considering the history of the human race so far may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?
May it not be that just as we have to have faith in Him God has to have faith in us and considering the history of the human race so far may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?
Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.
Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.
Learn from your dreams what you lack.
Learn from your dreams what you lack.
Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate it goes on to become.
A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate it goes on to become.
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.