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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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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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Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is lifes true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates. – Franz Grillparzer

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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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Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them. – Allen Tate

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Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know. – Joseph Roux, Meditations of a Parish Priest

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