“A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.”— W. H. Auden, Epistle to a Godson, and Other Poems (1972)Share
“The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.”— W. H. AudenShare
“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason.”— Samuel JohnsonShare
“All intellectual and artistic ambitions are permissible, up to and even beyond the limit of prudent sanity.”— Joseph ConradShare
“Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.”— EpictetusShare
