The sky is darkening like a stain Something is going to fall like rain And it won't be flowers
W. H. AudenMost poetry is the utterance of a man in some state of passion, love, joy, grief, rage, etc., and no doubt this is as it should be. But no man is perpetually in a passion and those states in which he is amused and amusing, detached and irreverent, if less important, are no less amusing. If there were no poets who, like Byron, express these states, Poetry would lack something.
W. H. Auden'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
W. H. Auden