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    “Paradise Lost" was printed in an edition of no more than 1,500 copies and transformed the English language. Took a while. Wordsworth had new ideas about nature: Thoreau read Wordsworth, Muir read Thoreau, Teddy Roosevelt read Muir, and we got a lot of national parks. Took a century. What poetry gives us is an archive, the fullest existent archive of what human beings have thought and felt by the kind of artists who loved language in a way that allowed them to labor over how you make a music of words to render experience exactly and fully.

    - Robert Hass
     
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    Interesting. I find it almost impossible to read poetry, even contemporary American stuff, but when I hear it, it's another matter entirely. When I was in high school, my English class went to see the then-poet laureate of the United States, Howard Nemerov, do a reading of his works and suddenly I got it... but reading the poems of his that I didn't hear? Not so much.
     
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    That was Groucho. His other memorable quote about clubs came from an incident where his daughter Melinda wanted to join a club that had a swimming pool. The club wouldn't accept Jews for membership. Groucho wrote them, "Well, my daughter is only half Jewish. Can't she go in up to her waist?"
     
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    My problem is I see your problems and their solutions more clearly than my own.
     
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    The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at the bidding of a few malefactors of great wealth.

    - P. J. O'Rourke
     
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    I'm with the masses on this! I've already got a sorta style and a couple of feelings. Gimme what I don't have.
     
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    a. Do you think power corrupts?
    b. Absolutely.
    a. How about absolute power?
     
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    It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

    - Alexandre Dumas
     
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    Who, other than a crazy person, does anything besides hang up on a robo-call? Any call, any person, anywhere, under any circumstances.

    - P. J. O'Rourke
     
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    I have to admit to laughing out loud on this one!
     
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    “Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times." ― G. Michael Hopf.



     
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    Yes, lol! :superlaugh:
     
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    The part I resonate with most is not knowing where the music is coming from. :D
     
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