Poetry makes nothing happen, it survives In the valley of its saying.
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Nobody knows what the cause is, Though some pretend they do; It's like some hidden assassin; Waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, And men when they retire; It's as if there had to be some outlet; For their foiled creative.W. H. Auden
Criticism should be a casual conversation.
W. H. Auden
The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid.
W. H. Auden
The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. . . .
W. H. Auden
The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the tea-cup opens; A lane to the land of the dead.
W. H. Auden
The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
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