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I wrote things for the schools newspaper, and - like all teenagers

I wrote things for the schools newspaper, and – like all teenagers – I dabbled in poetry. – Stephen Colbert

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I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didnt like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way. – Stephen Colbert

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In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, Keep your facts, Im going with the truth. – Stephen Colbert

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No, my mom kind of led me toward acting. She wanted to be an actress when she was younger. That made me interested in it when I was a kid, because she and I are very close. – Stephen Colbert

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[P]oetry… folds its wings at the rough contact of reality… it feels in one sense much more, and in another much less, than the soul engaged with reality… – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, theres been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived… Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos. – Andrew Motion

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I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry. – John Donne

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Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth – the true poet is very near the oracle. – Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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