Quote of the Day (W.H. Auden, on One Leader’s Chilling ‘Perfection, of a Kind’)

 “Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after,

And the poetry he invented was easy to understand;

He knew human folly like the back of his hand,

And was greatly interested in armies and fleets;

When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter,

And when he cried the little children died in the streets.”— English poet-critic W.H. Auden (1907-1973), “Epitaph on a Tyrant,” from Collected Poems, edited by Edward Mendelson (1968)