A writer-editor-teacher’s quote of the week #152

Auden was wrong. Poets take some things far more seriously than other people, though he was right to the extent that they are not the same things others would take seriously or often even notice.

— from chapter two, “The Triggering Town,” in The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing by Richard Hugo

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