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

Other quotes by W.H. Auden

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

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Names
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“Healing,” Papa would tell me, “is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.” – W.H. Auden

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Healing
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Other Quotes from
Poetry
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Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying. – W. H. Auden

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Poetry

Poetry is not always words. – Terri Guillemets, “Moonglow over the mountain,” 1991

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Poetry

Eloquence is the poetry of prose. – William C. Bryant

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Poetry

Poetry is a mere drug, Sir. – George Farquhar

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Poetry

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