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

Quote by W H Auden

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A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more...

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more...

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own...

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own...

Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the...

Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the...

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they...

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they...

We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here...

We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here...

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to...

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to...

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are...

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are...

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called...

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called...

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is...

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is...

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our...

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our...

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

Now is the age of anxiety.

Now is the age of anxiety.

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a...

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a...

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of...

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of...

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them....

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them....

For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?