Books Quote by W. H. Auden

“Poetry is the sound of the human animal.”

— Suniti Namjoshi

“Hence one meets in polite society few novelists, or poets, few of all those sublime creatures who speak of the things that are not…

— Marcel Proust

“Go to the poets, they will speak to thee More perfectly of purer creatures--”

— William Wordsworth

“A day will come when men will discover an alphabet in the eyes of chalcedonies, in the markings of the moth, and will learn…

— Alejo Carpentier

“This is my last communique from the planet of the monsters. Never again will I immerse myself in literature's bottomless cesspools. I will go…

— Roberto Bolaño

“There’s plenty of room for strangeness, mystery, originality, wildness, etc. in poems that also invite the reader into the human and alive center about…

— Thomas Lux

“The nature of poems Is a matter of words and deeds An intimate encounter of voice In the ache of the heart In the…

— Kendall Dana Lockerman

“The world was a glorious place this morning. The birds were particularly noisy in their greeting to the day. The sky was a cloudless…

— Karen Ranney

“Speaking of novels,’ I said, ‘you remember we decided once, you, your husband and I, that Proust’s rough masterpiece was a huge, ghoulish fairy…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“According to my poetry perception, Write one a day with no exception; Read out loud and start to practice, Not sounding like you sat…

— James Hawthorne Horn

“Predators prey on the weak; poets prey on brilliant ideas.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“It reminds me of poets, before all this—how the sensitive souls who submitted their work to literary journals outnumbered those who read those same…

— Adrian Barnes