In the eyes of others a man is a poet if he has written one good poem. In his own he is only a poet at the moment when he is making his last revision to a new poem. The moment before, he was still only a potential poet; the moment after, he is a man who has ceased to write poetry, perhaps forever.
W. H. AudenA god who is both self-sufficient and content to remain so could not interest us enough to raise the question of his existence.
W. H. AudenThe definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.
W. H. AudenIt's impossible to represent a saint [in Art]. It becomes boring. Perhaps because he is, like the Saturday Evening Post people, inthe position of having almost infinitely free will.
W. H. Auden