"A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language."
― W. H. Auden
Topic(s):
Love
More From W. H. Auden
- "Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one."
- "Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say."
- "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."
More In Love
- "There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another."― Frank Zappa
- "We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone – but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy."― Walter Anderson
- "Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage."― Benjamin Franklin