W H Auden Quotes
W H Auden Quote of the day
I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.
You searched through all my poets, From Sappho through to Auden, I saw the book fall from your hands, As you slowly died of boredom.
The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.
Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough.
One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to absorb him.
There are good books which are only for adults.There are no good books which are only for children.
Why should I even bother? What's the point, really?"He thought for a moment. "Who says there has to be a point?" he asked. "Or a reason. Maybe it's just something you have to do.
