Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
Russell Baker
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I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time, so kids didn't know what to make of me. -
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By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made. -
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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
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