Poet W H Auden Quotes
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It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
— W. H. Auden
A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.
— W. H. Auden
A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
— W. H. Auden
A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
— W. H. Auden
Auden is a poet - no, the poet - of unembarrassed intellect. Ideas are his emotions, emotions are his ideas.
— Cynthia Ozick
I will love you forever" swears the poet. I find this easy to swear too. "I will love you at 4:15 pm next Tuesday" - Is that still as easy?
— W. H. Auden
As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption.
— W. H. Auden
In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough.
— Stephen Greenblatt
What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.
— W. H. Auden
Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs.
— W. H. Auden