But he did disprove, for an unimportant but magnificent moment, W. H. Auden's dictum that poetry makes nothing happen.
His attempt to contradict W.H. Auden ended in failure.
mnli hypothesis: His attempt to contradict W.H. Auden ended in failure. premise: But he did disprove, for an unimportant but magnificent moment, W. H. Auden's dictum that poetry makes nothing happen.