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 practising it.


The Dyer's Hand (1963) foreword

W. H. Auden Quotes

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 practising it.

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 practising it.

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 practising it.

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 practising it.