What was the poetry makes nothing happen?

"Poetry makes nothing happen" is a quote often attributed to the American poet W. H. Auden. The quote is taken from the poem "In Memory of W. B. Yeats," which Auden wrote in response to the death of the Irish poet William Butler Yeats. In the poem, Auden argues that poetry does not have a direct impact on the world, but rather works through the minds and imaginations of individuals to change the way they see and understand the world. He writes, "For poetry makes nothing happen: it survives / In the valley of its making where executives / Would never want to tamper, flows on south / From ranches of isolation and the busy griefs, / Raw towns that we believe and die in; it survives, / A way of happening, a mouth."