"In short, it became possible - never easy,……" — Stephen Greenblatt
"In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough."
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Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
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Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.
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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…
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I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker,…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— Mitch Albom
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