W. H. Auden

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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

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music

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

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music

A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

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music

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

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nature

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

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poetry

A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

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poetry

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.

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poetry

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

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poetry

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

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relationship

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

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