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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I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Womens restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking. – Lynda Barry

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. – Lynda Barry

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Poetry
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If we ask a vague question, such as, What is poetry? we expect a vague answer, such as, Poetry is the music of words, or Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder. – A. R. Ammons

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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it. – Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go. – Laura Riding

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Poetry is the energy of the soul made ink. – Terri Guillemets, “Lust & creativity,” 1995

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