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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. – John Updike

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The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. – John Updike

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Education
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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. – John Updike

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Government
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Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another days progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper. – John Updike

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Morning
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Other Quotes from
Poetry
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Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then dont by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse. – Robert W. Service

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Poetry

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Poetry
[T]he poetic soul… a living lyre, it only lives enough to echo, and all that it has of life it pours out, and spends in song: the inspiring tripod which the poet ascends, at once unites him to, and separates him from, society. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Poetry

Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job. – Toi Derricotte

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Poetry

Random Quotes

Few rich men own their property; the property owns them. – Robert Ingersoll, speech, New York, 29 October 1896

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Property

If you search and search and stop searching, then ultimately youll find what you need. It is the experience of living. – Marion Cotillard

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Experience

So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They wont have the patience to pick them out. – Martin Yan

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Patience

All those years wed spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where youd play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business. – Nick Lowe

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Learning