Quote by Nicholson Baker
When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother

When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry. – Nicholson Baker

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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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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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I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible. – Seamus Heaney

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Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know. – Joseph Roux, Meditations of a Parish Priest

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Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen. – Carol Ann Duffy

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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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