“Writing nasty reviews can be fun, but I don’t think the practice is very good for the character.”— W. H. Auden, theparisreview.orgTagged: Criticism, Writing Bad Book Reviews
“It’s very easy for a writer to be unrealistic. I have not lost my interest in politics, but I have come to realize that, in cases of social or political injustice, only two things are effective: political action and straight journalistic reportage of the facts. The arts can do nothing. The social an…”— W. H. Auden, theparisreview.orgTagged: Political Poems, Social History, The Arts and Political Change, Poetry Makes Nothing Happen, Political Injustice