Quote by Camille Paglia
I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny o

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools dont do things like that anymore – tracking words down to their roots. – Camille Paglia

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I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity. – Camille Paglia

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Women are in league with each other, a secret conspiracy of hearts and pheromones. – Camille Paglia

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Thats one of the great things about poetry one realises that one does ones little turn – that youre just part of the great crop, as it were. – Paul Muldoon

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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place. – Charles Baudelaire

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Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. – Steven Pinker

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Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. – John Keats

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