Quote by Caroline Kennedy
I never thought Id be doing poetry books. I never really studied p

I never thought Id be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas. – Caroline Kennedy

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After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity. – Caroline Kennedy

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Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People dont always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history. – Caroline Kennedy

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The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they cant understand it or that it will be boring. – Caroline Kennedy

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Poets touch forcibly and truly that invisible lyre which echoes in unison in all human souls. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847), paraphrase

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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. – Jean Cocteau

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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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My poetry, I think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me. – Countee Cullen (1903–1946)

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