Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel. W. H. Auden Read Quote
It’s a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. W. H. Auden Read Quote
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age. W. H. Auden Read Quote
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. W. H. Auden Read Quote
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own. W. H. Auden Read Quote
Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another. W. H. Auden Read Quote
