Quotes by Auden, W. H.

Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying. >>

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself >>

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

Quotations about Talent

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object t >>

Talent works, genius creates. >>

Talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to >>

It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.

Auden, W. H.