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I think poetry is best read to oneself. - Rickie Lee Jones

I think poetry is best read to oneself. – Rickie Lee Jones

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The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealisms anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot. – Graham Joyce

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