Logo
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contem

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. – W. H. Auden

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Poetry
category

The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology. – Basil Bunting

Category:
Poetry

The completely solitary self: thats where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also. – Seamus Heaney

Category:
Poetry

A poet can survive anything but a misprint. – Oscar Wilde

Category:
Poetry

I love romantic poetry. – Richard Dawkins

Category:
Poetry

Random Quotes

Part of the reason that I moved to Los Angeles is that even though my mom introduced me to all kinds of music, I really wanted to work on having my own identify, on being who I am and doing what I do, and seeing how people responded. – Schuyler Fisk

Category:
mom

Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch. – Cathy Carlyle

Category:
Love

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers. – Virginia Woolf

Category:
War

Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

Category:
Age