“Stravinsky (I think) said, in a most elaborate jibe, that ‘Richard Strauss is the Puccini of music’. Well, James Callaghan is the Harold Wilson of politics.”
Month: December 2014
W H Auden
We would rather be ruined than changed
Needles
Man please thy maker and be merry set not for this world a cherry.
“Stravinsky (I think) said, in a most elaborate jibe, that ‘Richard Strauss is the Puccini of music’. Well, James Callaghan is the Harold Wilson of politics.”
We would rather be ruined than changed