Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.
I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.
The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.
Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.
Poetry must be made by all and not by one.
There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
A lot happens by accident in poetry.
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.
Auden is a poet - no, the poet - of unembarrassed intellect. Ideas are his emotions, emotions are his ideas.