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What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed? - W.H.

What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed? – 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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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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Healing
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One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. – George Sand, 1851

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Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry. – Julie Taymor

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Poetry

A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry. – Walter Pater

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Poetry

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