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Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it. - Russell Baker

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it. – Russell Baker

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A day spent praising the earth and lamenting mans pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul. – Russell Baker

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History
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Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories — those that dont work, those that break down and those that get lost. – Russell Baker

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Things, Little Things
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Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them. – Russell Baker

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That is what I did with Jack, and thats why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music. – David Amram

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Poetry

Pounds translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later. – Robert Morgan

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Poetry

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words. – Tahar Ben Jelloun

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Poetry

The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, “Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.” – Robert Penn Warren, “The Themes of Robert Frost,” Hopwood Lecture, 1947

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Poetry

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I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just dont say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian. – James Laughlin

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In an underdeveloped country, don’t drink the water; in a developed country, don’t breathe the air. – Changing Times magazine

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I can remember when I was National Security Adviser, the intelligence community told us… they put out an intelligence report saying that Iran would never back off from attacks on shipping in the Gulf if we use force. – Frank Carlucci

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You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill. – William Temple

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