Inspiring Quotes by W. H. Auden - Page 2

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"For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?"

"A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us"

"'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'"

"Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about"

"Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel"

"The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living"

"Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality"

"A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects"

"A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language"

"All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him"

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