Quote by Caroline Kennedy
The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can

The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they cant understand it or that it will be boring. – Caroline Kennedy

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I feel that my fathers greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything. – Caroline Kennedy

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You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little bit of effort, but its so worth it. – Caroline Kennedy

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In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. Theyre short, theyre intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article. – Caroline Kennedy

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Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course. – John Drinkwater

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Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me its the home of the extraordinary, the only home. – Philip Levine

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Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers. – James Broughton

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A poet can survive everything but a misprint. – Oscar Wilde

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