Quote by Nicholson Baker
So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted

So I really began as a failed poet – although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry. – Nicholson Baker

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I think I am done with Wikipedia for the time being. But I have a secret hope. Someone recently proposed a Wikimorgue – a bin of broken dreams where all rejects could still be read, as long as they werent libelous or otherwise illegal. – Nicholson Baker

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Dreams
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Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library. – Nicholson Baker

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Reading
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Poetry
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One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime. – Robert Morgan

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Poetry

Otherwise I dont read much adult poetry at all, because Im not smart enough and mostly I dont get it. – Jack Prelutsky

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Poetry

You dont have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. – John Ciardi

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Poetry

The poet needs to admire; he is in a merely human sense the high priest of the true, the beautiful, the grand. On whatever side he spreads his wings it is his mission to bear the universal homage to these worthy objects, or to some ideas of them. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Poetry

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Let another praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips. – Bible

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