I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very…

I think it was W.H. Auden who said he was lucky that his first favorite poet was Thomas Hardy, who was a good but…

— David Duchovny

“In the shadow of skyscrapers, half-nude men in dugouts cast nets into the lagoon. The work of arms and shoulders. I think of Auden’s…

— Teju Cole

When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore.

— Steve Martin

“A black boy brought Wilson's gin and he sipped it very slowly because he had nothing else to do except to return to his…

— Graham Greene

“He laughed, but his face was unreadable as he looked at her titles. “Ah, a collection from Sir Walter Scott. Very nice, I’ve always…

— Jess Michaels

I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.

— Leonard Cohen

I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked…

— Ai Weiwei

“It was language I loved, not meaning. I liked poetry better when I wasn't sure what it meant. Eliot has said that the meaning…

— Anonymous

When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution.

— Niall Ferguson

I was brought up a strict Christian. My father was a lay preacher, my mother a church warden. The rhythm and ritual of the…

— Monty Don

But miracles are not for the asking; they come only when the stern eyes of God droop shut for a moment, and Our Lady…

— Michel Faber

As a practising Anglican I go to church on a Sunday.

— Dominic Grieve

“Resurrection means bodily resurrection or it means nothing at all.”

— Philip Edgcumbe Hughes

“We often speak of Anglican "comprehensiveness." If this is a way of making relativism palatable or a means of accommodating all shades of opinion…

— Urban Tigner Holmes

The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that, if you let it alone, it will let you alone.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson