More From W. H. Auden
- "A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language."
- "Choice of attention – to pay attention to this and ignore that – is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be."
- "Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one."
More In Art
- "Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art."― Ansel Adams
- "The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I’ve ever seen them before."― Jerry Saltz
- "When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art."― Paul Cezanne