Quote by Patrick White
Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing earl

Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays. – Patrick White

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My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage. – Patrick White

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The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But its not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it Ive met, and think theyre incredibly witty, inventive – theres a lot of poetry there. – Martin Amis

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I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think. – Robert Morgan

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There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers wives. – Hamlin Garland

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Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race. – Johann Georg Hamann

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