Poetry makes nothing happen. Author: W.H. Auden Copy Quote More from W.H. Auden “How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, an…” “Looking up at the stars, I know quite wellThat, for all they care, I can go to …” “What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is inten…” “Let all your thinks be thanks.”