Rather Be Ruined

We would rather be ruined than changed

We would rather die in our dread

Than climb the cross of the moment

And let our illusions die

WH Auden

excerpt from

The Age of Anxiety : A Baroque Eclogue

1947

                 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9757482-the-age-of-anxiety

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Nicola Davidson Reed