Quotations From W.H. (WYSTAN HUGH) AUDEN

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• 21.

  It is 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. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet. The Dyer's Hand, foreword (1962). Opening words.
  
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• 22.

  Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

  W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet. The Dyer's Hand, pt. 1, "Reading," (1962).
• 23.

  Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle.

  W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet, essayist. The Wanderer (l. 1). . . Juvenilia; Poems, 1922-1928 [W. H. Auden]. Katherine Bucknell, ed. (1994) Princeton University Press.
  
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• 24.

  Love made him weep his pints like you and me.

  W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet, essayist. Who's Who (l. 8). . . Juvenilia; Poems, 1922-1928 [W. H. Auden]. Katherine Bucknell, ed. (1994) Princeton University Press.
  
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• 25.

  Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

  W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet. "Writing," pt. 1, The Dyer's Hand (1962).
• 26.

  Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

  W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet. Faber Book of Modern American Verse, introduction (1956).
  
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• 27.

  He knew human folly like the back of his hand,

  W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet, essayist. Epitaph on a Tyrant (l. 3). . . Juvenilia; Poems, 1922-1928 [W. H. Auden]. Katherine Bucknell, ed. (1994) Princeton University Press.
• 28.

  Dreaming of evening walks through learned cities,

  W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet, essayist. Paysage Moralisé (l. 9). . . Juvenilia; Poems, 1922-1928 [W. H. Auden]. Katherine Bucknell, ed. (1994) Princeton University Press.