Auden Quote by Stevie Smith Download Open image “I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.” — Stevie Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Auden Poetry Thinking
One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to absorb him. — Clive James Copy Share Image
Auden is a poet - no, the poet - of unembarrassed intellect. Ideas are his emotions, emotions are his ideas. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“Auden? Does he rhyme? I only like poetry that rhymes. All the best poets write in rhyme." "Really?" "Dr. Seuss and Shakespeare. You can't… — Shiela Jane Copy Share Image
There are some good things and some fantastic ones in Auden's early attitude; if the reader calls it a muddle I shall acquiesce, with… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“Do you know who W.H. Auden was, Mr. Iscariot? W.H. Auden was a poet who once said, “God may reduce you on Judgement Day to tears of shame reciting by heart the poems you would have written had your life been good”…She was my poem, Mr. Iscariot. Her and the kids. But mostly her. You cashed in for silver, Mr.… — Stephen Adly Guirgis Copy Share
Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen. — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
“As Auden is believed to have said, no poem saved a single Jew from the gas chambers. Never mind. Write the poems anyway. Play… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I've hated poetry ever since I was at school. I include Shakespeare in that. I don't understand the obsession with him! — Eddie the Eagle Copy Share Image
“I treasure ruefully some memories of W.H. Auden that go back to the middle 1960s, when he arrived in New Haven to give a reading of his poems at Ezra Stiles College. We had met several times before, in New York City and at Yale, but were only acquaintances. The earlier Auden retains my interest, but much of the frequently… — Harold Bloom Copy Share
When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways my poems… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
I only asked my friends to be friendly and polite, I found them indifferent and censorious; The one I left to silence, the other… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
“Wild creatures' eyes, the colonel said, Are innocent and fathomless And when I look at them I see That they are not aware of… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
“Raise from your bed of languor Raise from your bed of dismay Your friends will not come tomorrow As they did not come today… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
“There is a god in whom I do not believe Yet to this god my love stretches, This god whom I do not believe… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
So I fancy my Muse says, when I wish to die, Oh no, Oh no, we are not yet friends enough, And Virtue also… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
If a lady comes up to you and tells you that your dear mama is lying in a faint on the pavement round the… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
I like food, I like stripping vegetables of their skins, I like to have a slim young parsnip under my knife. — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door. — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
The flower and fruit of love are mine The ant, the fieldmouse and the mole — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
“Prate not to me of suicide, Faint heart in battle, not for pride I say Endure, but that such end denied Makes welcomer yet… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
It is an amiable part of human nature, that we should love our animals; it is even better to love them to the point… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm beer, the… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to absorb him. — Clive James Copy Share Image
Auden, who asked two things of an imagined world-that it be somehow like ours and somehow unlike-would be Ben Marcus's ideal reader, yet even… — Richard Howard Copy Share Image
You searched through all my poets, From Sappho through to Auden, I saw the book fall from your hands, As you slowly died of… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
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… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen. — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
W. H. Auden once suggested that to understand your own country you need to have lived in at least two others. One can say… — Ian Mortimer Copy Share Image
The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like snow. The good gray… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Why should I even bother? What's the point, really?" He thought for a moment. "Who says there has to be a point?" he asked.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
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… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
