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The quotations of
British-American poet
1907–1973
19 quotes, most often on Love, Poetry and Writing.
Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.
The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.
Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity. Of all novelists in any country, Trollope best understands the role of money. Compared with him even Balzac is a romantic.
All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman.
W. H. Auden1907–1973W. H. Auden1907–1973W. H. Auden1907–1973
