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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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Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work. – Camille Paglia

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Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clans bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much. – Camille Paglia

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You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people. – Fred Durst

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My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. Im not kidding. – Harry Mathews

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If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect. – John Barton

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We dont attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry. – James Laughlin

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