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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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If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. – Emily Dickinson

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I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry. – Elizabeth Edwards

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Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. – Robert Frost

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Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. Im not saying Ive got the answers, just a of questions that I dont hear other artists asking. – Malcolm Wilson

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