The nightingales are sobbing in The orchards of our mothers, And hearts that we broke long ago Have long been breaking others; Tears are round, the sea is deep: Roll them overboard and sleep.

Between labor and play stands work. A man is a worker if he is personally interested in the job which society pays him to do; whatfrom the point of view of society is necessary labor is from his point of view voluntary play. Whether a job is to be classified as labor or work depends, not on the job itself, but on the tastes of the individual who undertakes it. The difference does not, for example, coincide with the difference between a manual and a mental job; a gardener or a cobbler may be a worker, a bank clerk a laborer.

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.

I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.