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Quote by Phyllis McGinley
In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime. - Phylli

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime. – Phyllis McGinley

Other quotes by Phyllis McGinley

Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone. – Phyllis McGinley

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Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure. – Phyllis McGinley

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Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something. – Amy Clampitt

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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. – Edgar Allan Poe

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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. – Edith Sitwell

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The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse. – Robert Morgan

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