About W. H. Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden (; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was a British-American poet. Auden's poetry is noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form, and content. Some of his best known poems are about love,...
More quotations from W. H. Auden
A poet's hope: to be,
like some valley cheese,
local, but prized elsewhere.