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The only thing worse than poetry? Abstract poetry, which exists solely to make students feel stupid and professors feel smug.

— Laura Penny

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Who teh heLL R u 2 tELL me what 2 reed or how 2 spel?

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Anyone taking classics or history for the prestige is either at Oxford or stuck in 1909.

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"You think you're so smart" is never a compliment; the only thing worse than being smart is thinking that you are.

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All we really need to do is learn 'em so they don't frig up the cash register or offend the customers.

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It's a shame that pantyless party girls get more attention than the real heroes, the nurses and teachers and moms.

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There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature (1836)

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality.

T. S. Eliot Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)

Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity...but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.

George Chapman Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595)

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

Michael Faraday

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