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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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There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalisms problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance. – Russell Baker

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In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to ones beloved. – Russell Baker

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When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible – cowards and fools. – Russell Baker

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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand. – Plato

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A poet is someone who is astonished by everything. – Anon.

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The poet sees and selects from on high and afar, and hardly inquires about what is near at hand. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Poetry is not always words. – Terri Guillemets, “Moonglow over the mountain,” 1991

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