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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

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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alone
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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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Poetry
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My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we dont want our lives to end. – John Barton

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Poetry

Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives. – Richard Eyre

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Poetry

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry? – Azar Nafisi

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Poetry

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

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Poetry

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