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In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime. - Phylli

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime. – 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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Peace
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Phyllis McGinley
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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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alone
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Poetry
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As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. – Thomas B. Macaulay

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Poetry

Ive been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out. – Ed Westwick

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Poetry

I look for poetry in English because its the only language I read. – Jack Prelutsky

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Poetry

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Poetry

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