More From W. H. Auden
- "A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become."
- "What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish."
- "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 Best
- "There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all."― Jackie Kennedy
- "In the area we’re discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings."― Norman Lear
- "We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best."― Philip James Bailey