Pengaku sastra itu hina, seperti pengemis yang memamerkan luka mereka demi uang, tetapi tidak begitu hina seperti masyarakat yang membeli buku-buku mereka. Asli: Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.

— W. H. Auden