Patrick Richardson

“Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.”
― W. H. Auden

“There is a place called ‘heaven’ where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories unwritten, and the hopes unfulfilled, are continued. We may laugh together yet.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.”
― W.H. Auden

“Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods.”
― W.H. Auden, Selected Essays