Auden Poetry Quotes
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Auden Poetry Quotes & Sayings
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With the farming of a verseMake a vineyard of the curse — W. H. Auden
There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!
— Ivor Novello
Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.
— W. H. Auden
Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
— Carol Ann Duffy
Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry.
— W. H. Auden
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
When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all.
— Tom Stoppard
When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.from an essay for Writers by Nancy Crampton — W. H. Auden
Poetry makes nothing happen.
— W. H. Auden
Diapers do not belong on the same table as food.
— Mallory Ortberg
Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.
— Peter Porter
I want to get to know you Sadia. I also want to tie you up and make love to you until you pass out.
— Angelia Vernon Menchan
The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.
— George Orwell
O stand, stand at the windowAs the tears scald and start;
You shall love your crooked neighbour
With your crooked heart. — W. H. Auden
Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
It is not so much the grand dramas of our lives that transform us as it isthe tiny one-acts we produce in between. — Gina Greenlee
Life is 10% of what happens to you and 90% how you React to it, Stay Strong, Be Unstoppable.
— Diamond Dallas Page
Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.
— W. H. Auden
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
— W. H. Auden
