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The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around us. I do not know if such increased awareness makes us more moral or more efficient. I hope not. I think it

The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around us. I do not know if such increased awareness makes us more moral or more efficient. I hope not. I think it makes us more human, and I am quite certain it makes us more difficult to deceive.

W. H. Auden
Art, Thinking, Poetry

Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.

W. H. Auden
Poetry, Adjectives

A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.

W. H. Auden
Believe, Writing, Poetry

Poetry is the only art people haven't learned to consume like soup.

W. H. Auden
Art, People, Poetry

With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse

W. H. Auden
Poetry, Vineyards, Farming
W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.150, DEBOLS!LLO

You will be a poet because you will always be humiliated.

W. H. Auden
Poetry, Poet, Humiliated
Entry for April 11, 1979. "Stephen Spender, Journals 1939-1983". Book by Stephen Spender, 1985.

Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry.

W. H. Auden
Art, Lying, Poetry
"In Memory of W. B. Yeats" l. 42 (1940)

What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?

W. H. Auden
Poetry, Professors, Poetry Is

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