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

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I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. – Keith Haring

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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. – Khalil Gibran

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Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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Some say they see poetry in my paintings I see only science. – Georges Seurat

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