Logo
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

Getting along with men isnt whats truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man. – Phyllis McGinley

Category:
Knowledge
Author
Phyllis McGinley
Read Quote

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

Category:
alone
Author
Phyllis McGinley
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Poetry
category

Its something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone elses poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because youre too awkward to do it. – John Cusack

Category:
Poetry

Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem. – Maxine Hong Kingston

Category:
Poetry

I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. – Keith Haring

Category:
Poetry

My chief aim is to make a poem. You make it for yourself firstly, and then if other people want to join in then there we are. – R.S. Thomas (1913–2000)

Category:
Poetry

Random Quotes

I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV. Im not exactly a poster girl for healthy living. – Lexa Doig

Category:
Health

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future. – Dale Turner

Category:
best

Money isnt the most important thing in life, but its reasonably close to oxygen on the gotta have it scale. – Zig Ziglar

Category:
Life

Adele Adkins retro-soul debut, 19, was striking less for her songs than for that voice: a voluptuous, slightly parched alto that swooped and fluttered like a Dusty Springfield student trying to upstage her teacher, or at least update the rules. – Will Hermes

Category:
teacher