Quote by Russell Baker
I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world. – Russell Baker

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It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic. – Russell Baker

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Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories — those that dont work, those that break down and those that get lost. – Russell Baker

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Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didnt know. – Russell Baker

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Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a mans life if he has the weight and cares about the words. – Archibald MacLeish

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