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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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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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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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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But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry – still. – Ian Hamilton Finlay

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In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime. – Phyllis McGinley

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Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold. – Diane Glancy

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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry. – Walter Pater

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