Society and the World

I take the word Europe Or the word death And tear them into tiny pieces; I scatter them at your feet.

Let us have madness openly, O men Of my generation. Let us follow The footsteps of this slaughtered age.

Human reason is beautiful and invincible. No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books, No sentence of banishment can prevail against it.

Human reason is beautiful and invincible. No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books, No sentence of banishment can prevail against it.

Should we have stayed at home, wherever that may be?

It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free, drawn from the cold hard mouth of the world, derived from the rocky breasts forever, flowing and drawn, and since our knowledge is historical, flowing, and flown.

I have had to learn the simplest things last. Which made for difficulties.

The girls are all giggling, then one girl suddenly remembers the wild goat. Up there, on the hilltop, in the woods and rocky ravines, the peasants saw him butting his head against the trees, looking for the nannies. He’s gone wild, and the reason why is this: if you don’t make an animal work, if you keep him only for stud, he likes to hurt, he kills.

Thou shalt not sit With statisticians nor commit A social science.

At Dirty Dick’s and Sloppy Joe’s We drank our liquor straight, Some went upstairs with Margery, And some, alas, with Kate.

When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried the little children died in the streets.

Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd: Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.

Our researchers into Public Opinion are content That he held the proper opinions for the time of year; When there was peace, he was for peace; when there was war, he went.

Our researchers into Public Opinion are content That he held the proper opinions for the time of year; When there was peace, he was for peace; when there was war, he went.

Law, says the judge as he looks down his nose, Speaking clearly and most severely, Law is as I’ve told you before, Law is as you know I suppose, Law is but let me explain it once more, Law is The Law.

Law, says the judge as he looks down his nose, Speaking clearly and most severely, Law is as I’ve told you before, Law is as you know I suppose, Law is but let me explain it once more, Law is The Law.

In the nightmare of the dark All the dogs of Europe bark.

Intellectual disgrace Stares from every human face, And the seas of pity lie Locked and frozen in each eye.

We must love one another or die.

We must love one another or die.

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

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

About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters: how well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window Or just walking dully along.

Sir, no man’s enemy, forgiving all But will his negative inversion, be prodigal.