If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to believe It will get away with anything, while age Knows only too well that it has got away with nothing.


For the Time Being (ed. 1945)

W. H. Auden Quotes

If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to believe It will get away with anything,...

If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to believe It will get away with anything,...

If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to believe It will get away with anything,...

If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to believe It will get away with anything,...