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I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it b

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

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A day spent praising the earth and lamenting mans pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul. – Russell Baker

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Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder. – Russell Baker

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My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. – Wilfred Owen

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I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic. – Joni Mitchell

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The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind… The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself. – Laura Riding

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For me, prose walks, poetry dances. – James Broughton

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If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, its my dad, but he did not feel that way at all. – Larry Elder

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Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet – the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up! – Rachael Ray

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