W. H. Auden

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his…

It’s a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money…

I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you till China and Africa meet and the river…

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead…

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell…

A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it…

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to…

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one…

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more…

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual…

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God…

Art is born of humiliation…

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate…

Now is the age of anxiety…

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language…