Quote by Lynda Barry
The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid ther

The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. – Lynda Barry

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If I didnt try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time. – Lynda Barry

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My mom didnt want me to go to college. She didnt want me to read – when I read, I may as well have been holding a pineapple. – Lynda Barry

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Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think its harder to write. Its harder to keep the respect of the reader too. – George Murray

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Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew. – Seamus Heaney

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All the modern verse plays, theyre terrible theyre mostly about the poetry. Its more important that the play is first. – Denis Johnson

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Poetry must be made by all and not by one. – Comte de Lautreamont

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