"Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it."

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"Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."

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"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."

"I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican."

"How these words, wait to diein the arms of all the poetry..yet to be written."

"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses."

"Each drop that fell, had a story to tell.each smile that curved, said a million words.(Poem: Our Existence, Book: Ginger and Honey)"

"A chronic poet should always be an inveterate nature-lover."

"Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."

"It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us."

"Old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know."

"Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry."

Explore more quotes by Russell Baker

"Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things."

"Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down."

"Americans like fat books and thin women."

"The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him."

"In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved."

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