W.H. AudenThinkers

Anxiety is the hallmark of our current age.

Authenticity is that which the writer should aim at. Never originality.

The Book is, at its best, something that reads us rather than us it.

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

The Ear is lazy and craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected... the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

The Ear is shocked by the unexpected.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

The Eye is bored by repetition.

The Eye is impatient and craves the novel and is bored by repetition.The ear is lazy and craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected.

Healing is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.

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

The Hero is never mortal till he dies.