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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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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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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Mathematics and Poetry are… the utterance of the same power of imagination, only that in the one case it is addressed to the head, in the other, to the heart. – Thomas Hill

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Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. – Seamus Heaney

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Poetry isnt a profession, its a way of life. Its an empty basket you put your life into it and make something out of that. – Mary Oliver

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