W. H. Auden on Poetry

A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.

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W. H. Auden on Criticism

One cannot review a bad book without showing off.

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W. H. Auden on Books

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

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