“Monkeys, who very sensibly refrain from speech lest they should be set to earn their livings.”
The Golden Age. "Lusisti Satis"
“In the late Middle Ages there were, no doubt, many persons in monasteries and convents who had no business there and should have been out in the world earning an honest living, but today it may very well be that there are many persons trying to earn a living in the world and driven by failure into mental homes whose true home would be the cloister.”
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W. H. Auden
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Forewords and Afterwords
"The Protestant Mystics", p. 73
Forewords and Afterwords (1973)
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