Quote by Russell Baker
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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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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Anything that isnt opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesnt matter. – Russell Baker

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Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down. – Russell Baker

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Poetry is mans rebellion against being what he is. – James Branch Cabell

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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand. – Plato

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It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found – indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese. – Lafcadio Hearn

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[P]oetry… folds its wings at the rough contact of reality… it feels in one sense much more, and in another much less, than the soul engaged with reality… – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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