“Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.”
“Auden? Does he rhyme? I only like poetry that rhymes. Allthe best poets write in rhyme.""Really?""Dr. Seuss and Shakespeare. You can't do better than that.”
“Shakespeare's plays often turn on the idea of fate, as much drama does. What makes them so tragic is the gap between what his characters might like to accomplish and what fate provides them.”
“In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough.”
“Shakespeare's great."Duh. Shakespeare's cool, man.”
“T. S. Eliot told Auden tht the reason he played patience night after night was that it was the nearest thing to being dead.”