“Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.”
W.H. Auden
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“You have to see the sex act comically, as a child.”
W.H. Auden
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“History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.”
W.H. Auden
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“Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.”
W.H. Auden
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“For poetry makes nothing happen:”
W.H. Auden
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“You will be a poet because you will always be humiliated.”
W.H. Auden
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“the poets exploding like bombs,”
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 practicingit.”
W.H. Auden
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“Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to command their respect, the result is an orderly happy household. If he is too tyrannical, they give notice; if he lacks authority, they become slovenly, impertinent, drunk and dishonest.”
W.H. Auden
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“I cannot accept the doctrine that in poetry there is a “suspension of belief.” A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.”
W.H. Auden
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“An important Jew who died in exile.”
W.H. Auden
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“He disappeared in the dead of winter.”
W.H. Auden
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“Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.”
W.H. Auden
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