Saturday, July 30, 2011

Auden

Money cannot buy
The fuel of Love:
But is excellent kindling.

To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say,
Is a keen observer of life,
The word intellectual suggests straight away
A man who's untrue to his wife.


-- W. H. Auden, "Collected Shorter Poems"

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