"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. Auden
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Poetry
More From W. H. Auden
- "When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes."
- "A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language."
- "Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."
More In Poetry
- "We simply have not kept in touch with poetry."― Paul Muldoon
- "This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul."― Eugenio Montale
- "Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there’s been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived… Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos."― Andrew Motion