It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
W. H. AudenPolitics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.
W. H. AudenChristmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.
W. H. Auden