Quotes by Auden, W. H.

Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untransla >>

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more mone >>

Healing, Papa would tell me, is not a science, but the intuitive art o >>

Quotations about Poetry and Poets

The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft >>

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity --it sh >>

The courage of the poets is to keep ajar the door that leads into madn >>

As a poet there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language against corruption. When it is corrupted, people lose faith in what they hear and this leads to violence.

Auden, W. H.