W. H. Auden Quotes About Poetry
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Poetry is the only art people haven't learned to consume like soup.
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
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Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.
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He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.
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A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.
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You will be a poet because you will always be humiliated.
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Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to command their respect, the result is an orderly happy household. If he is too tyrannical, they give notice; if he lacks authority, they become slovenly, impertinent, drunk and dishonest.
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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.
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Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry.
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The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around us. I do not know if such increased awareness makes us more moral or more efficient. I hope not. I think it makes us more human, and I am quite certain it makes us more difficult to deceive.
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With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse
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What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?
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