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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Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them. – Russell Baker

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Roosevelts declaration that Americans had nothing to fear but fear itself was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong. – Russell Baker

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Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. – T. S. Eliot

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It all has to do with art – writing, painting, things Ive done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry – things that are designed for songs, but theyre always poems first. – Jason Newsted

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High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this. – Diane Wakoski

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