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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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Marriage was all a womans idea and for mans acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. – 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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Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure. – Phyllis McGinley

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Poetry
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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For me, poetry is a situation – a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history. – Tahar Ben Jelloun

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For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts. – John Drinkwater

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Poetry

Thats a wonderful change thats taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends. – A. R. Ammons

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Power is the great aphrodisiac. – Henry A. Kissinger

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I think people like to see the lives of artists that are legends. They always go through the dark periods and I think just as humans we like to see that and them coming out of it. I love those kinds of movies. – Kristen Wiig

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