“I never write when I'm drunk. Why should one need aids? The Muse is a high-spirited girl who doesn't like to be brutally or coarsely wooed. And she doesn't like slavish devotion — then she lies.”

— W. H. Auden

Source: Paris Review interview (1972), p. 254

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Anglo-American poet 1907–1973

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