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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
- 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.… — Martin Amis
- I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm… — 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… — 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,… — 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… — Nick Cave
- You searched through all my poets, From Sappho through to Auden, I saw the book fall from your hands, As you slowly… — Nick Cave
- We shortchange ourselves by regarding religious faith as a matter of intellectual assent. This is a modern aberration; the traditional Christian view… — Kathleen Norris
- Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry. — Wystan Hugh Auden