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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

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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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There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry. – Gyorgy Ligeti

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The poet illuminates us by the flames in which his being passes away. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. – Vincent Van Gogh

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I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now. – Norman MacCaig

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