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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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“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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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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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Im as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, Im much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons. – Marguerite Young

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And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem. – Mark Strand

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Most people cant tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that cant be related to other forms of historical poetry. – Thurston Moore

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