Auden Quotes
15 quotes by 14 authors
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In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough.
— Stephen Greenblatt
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Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
— Carol Ann Duffy
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Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.
— Peter Porter
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When things are going well, you do have the sense that what you’re writing is being fed to you in some way. Auden compared writing…
— Martin Amis
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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.…
— J. Courtney Sullivan
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The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like snow. The good gray conservative…
— Sylvia Plath
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I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.
— Stevie Smith
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The most conspicuous thing about suffering is, as W.H. Auden once observed, its banality. The day is green, the sun is shinging, someone is eating,…
— Michael Jackson
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Music is storming, driving, relentless, devotional, slinky, subtle, heartbreakingly-beautiful sounds that, lyrically, switch from the cynical to the sanguine, the defeated to the defiant, dealing…
— Nick Cave
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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.
— Nick Cave
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We shortchange ourselves by regarding religious faith as a matter of intellectual assent. This is a modern aberration; the traditional Christian view is far more…
— Kathleen Norris
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Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. If you don’t have…
— Mitch Albom
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‎W. H. Auden once suggested that to understand your own country you need to have lived in at least two others. One can say something…
— Ian Mortimer
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Auden is a poet - no, the poet - of unembarrassed intellect. Ideas are his emotions, emotions are his ideas.
— Cynthia Ozick
Who Wrote These Auden Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 15 Auden Quotes as follows: