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Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy lu

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through OHare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it. – Russell Baker

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Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them. – Russell Baker

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Homer has taught all other poets the are of telling lies skillfully. – Aristotle

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Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. Thats what writing is all about. – Wislawa Szymborska

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Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way. – Isaac Rosenberg

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I write poetry in order to live more fully. – Judith Rodriguez

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