"Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry." — Wystan Hugh Auden

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• In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal… — 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… — Martin Amis
• I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker,… — J. Courtney Sullivan
• The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like… — 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… — Michael Jackson
• Music is storming, driving, relentless, devotional, slinky, subtle, heartbreakingly-beautiful sounds that, lyrically, switch from the cynical to the sanguine, the… — Nick Cave
• You searched through all my poets, From Sappho through to Auden, I saw the book fall from your hands, As… — Nick Cave
• We shortchange ourselves by regarding religious faith as a matter of intellectual assent. This is a modern aberration; the traditional… — Kathleen Norris
• 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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