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  • And you just think, if I know as much as these people, and I've got a vision and a passion for this … There's a quote by W.H. Auden which is: 'all you need to make art is something to say and a respect and understanding of the medium'.

    The Line Of Best Fit 2009

  • Like Brecht's verse here translated by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallmann, the music is acerbic, sharp-edged but hauntingly tuneful.

    Howard Kissel: From Deadly Sins to Whipped Cream Howard Kissel 2011

  • She also covers the poet W.H. Auden with a new setting of "Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love" devised by guitarist Marc Ribot.

    Planning Her Own Holiday Will Friedwald 2011

  • Even non-English majors can cite titles, images or stanzas by W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, W.H. Auden and Philip Larkin—and can conjure up a picture of them—while Mr. Wilbur's achievements and the man himself remain blurry.

    A Great Living Poet's Rare Art of Reticence Richard B. Woodward 2011

  • Sometimes as I sit at my desk at night, my hands pressed to my temples, trying to come up with a poem that will be rejected by both The New Yorker and My Little Messenger, I recall an offhand remark by W.H. Auden that I read many years ago.

    Where Do You Get Your Poetic Inspiration? Con Chapman 2011

  • Like Brecht's verse here translated by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallmann, the music is acerbic, sharp-edged but hauntingly tuneful.

    Howard Kissel: From Deadly Sins to Whipped Cream Howard Kissel 2011

  • From Thomas Hardy to W.H. Auden, poets have found apt and awful words to fit the crimes of murderers.

    The ABCBs Of Murder Tom Nolan 2011

  • W.H. Auden's "In Memory of W.B. Yeats" says of the great man, "Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry."

    Tamsin Smith: 'A Thousand Twangling Instruments' Tamsin Smith 2011

  • W.H. Auden said of her: "I do not know of anyone in the Unites States today who writes better prose."

    The Romantical She Amy Finnerty 2011

  • W.H. Auden's "In Memory of W.B. Yeats" says of the great man, "Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry."

    Tamsin Smith: 'A Thousand Twangling Instruments' Tamsin Smith 2011

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