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Poetry · Reflection

W.H. AUDEN ~ HOW DOES A POET EARN HIS MONEY?

3 July 2011



“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 practicing it.”

~W.H. Auden

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