Auden Quotes

15 quotes by 14 authors

• In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough. — Stephen Greenblatt
• Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen. — Carol Ann Duffy
• Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not. — Peter Porter
• 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
• 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
• 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
• I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican. — Stevie Smith
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry. — Wystan Hugh Auden
• 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
• ‎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
• 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:

• 2 Auden Quotes by Nick Cave
• 1 Auden Quote by Carol Ann Duffy
• 1 Auden Quote by Peter Porter
• 1 Auden Quote by Martin Amis
• 1 Auden Quote by J. Courtney Sullivan
• 1 Auden Quote by Sylvia Plath
• 1 Auden Quote by Stevie Smith
• 1 Auden Quote by Michael Jackson
• 1 Auden Quote by Kathleen Norris
• 1 Auden Quote by Mitch Albom
• 1 Auden Quote by Ian Mortimer
• 1 Auden Quote by Cynthia Ozick
• 1 Auden Quote by Stephen Greenblatt
• 1 Auden Quote by Wystan Hugh Auden