Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another

Quote by W H Auden

Topics: Experience Quotes, Poetry Quotes

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....

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...

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his...

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his...

Now is the age of anxiety.

Now is the age of anxiety.

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

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

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

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

I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-Second Street Uncertain and afraid As the...

I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-Second Street Uncertain and afraid As the...

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

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...

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...

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it...

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it...

Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet...

Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet...

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...

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me

Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence,...

Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence,...

Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of...

Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of...

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not...

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not...