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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“Healing,” Papa would tell me, “is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.” – 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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Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. – W.H. Auden

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Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. – John Masefield

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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Its always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal. – Carol Ann Duffy

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All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and its another world. Its filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers – all kinds of people. – Flea

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