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Quote by W.H. Auden
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more

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

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Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. – W.H. Auden

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A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish. – W.H. Auden

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Poetry must be made by all and not by one. – Comte de Lautreamont

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Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race. – Johann Georg Hamann

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For me, prose walks, poetry dances. – James Broughton

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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. – Voltaire

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