W. H. Auden Quotes

It's 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.

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• It's 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. Auden
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Art