Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language

Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.

It is Australian innocence to love The naturally excessive and be proud Of a thoroughbred gelding who ran fast.

In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures.

I have no fondness for pure form at all.

Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language

Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.