W. H. Auden on poetry

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.

One can only blaspheme if one believes.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Robert Frost1874–1963

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

T. S. Eliot1888–1965“Philip Massinger”, a biographical essay, in The Sacred Wood (1920)

Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.

C. S. Lewis1898–1963Reflections on the Psalms