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

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Knowledge
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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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Marriage
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Other Quotes from
Poetry
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It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither. – Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Poetry

I never think about poetry except when Im writing it. I mean my poetry. – Norman MacCaig

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Poetry

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. Im always painting and drawing as well, and its an ongoing creative assignment. – P. J. Harvey

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Poetry

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. – Victor Hugo

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Poetry

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Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due. – William Ralph Inge

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A little poison now and then—maketh pleasant dreams. – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), Thus Spake Zarathustra, translated by M.A

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