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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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“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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Ive written some poetry I dont understand myself. – Carl Sandburg

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The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives. – Paul Muldoon

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