Quote by Marguerite Young
Im as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, mor

Im as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, Im much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons. – Marguerite Young

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Im quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent. – Marguerite Young

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All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side. – Marguerite Young

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A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns. – Marguerite Young

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Im quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent. – Marguerite Young

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Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. – John Keats

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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place. – Charles Baudelaire

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I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry. – Jane Campion

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