Kirk

“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.”
― W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays

“If you want romance, fuck a journalist.”
― W.H. Auden, Acting Up

“The red rose cries, "She is near, she is near;"
And the white rose weeps, "She is late;"
The larkspur listens, "I hear, I hear;"
And the lily whispers, "I wait.”
― Alfred, Lord Tennyson

“Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray