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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

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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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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Poetry
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There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power. – Eugenio Montale

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Poetry

Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom. – Wallace Stevens

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Poetry

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence. – Edmund Clarence Stedman

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Poetry

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its makers background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history. – Thomas Lynch

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Poetry

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I dont think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength. – Little Richard

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I know a lot of people fear the rougher types who might be at a state school, but surely it is better to know who they are and how to deal with them than for that kind of child to appear as a completely different species to yours. – Arabella Weir

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My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time. – Linda Sunshine

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Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isnt organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals. – Ivan Illich

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