Quote by Marguerite Young
Im quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they

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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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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wedding
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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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Beauty
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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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Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. – W. H. Auden

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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Most poems are never finished,” (I was defensive). He sighed: “No, most poems are never started.” – Dr.SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com

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It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things. – Stephen Mallarme

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