Quote by Anna Quindlen
There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound

There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever. – Anna Quindlen

Other quotes by Anna Quindlen

After all those years as a woman hearing not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough, almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, Im enough. – Anna Quindlen

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Morning
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People always blame the girl she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys cant manage it. – Anna Quindlen

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Wisdom
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The double hundred Fowler hit in the Madras Test was an absolute beauty. – David Gower

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Beauty

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated. – Charles Baudelaire

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Beauty

We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it. – Mary Oliver

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Beauty

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty. – John Cheever

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The poor will always be with you. John 12: 8 – Bible

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Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock. – Sigmund Freud

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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears. – Randy Bachman

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The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Age