Quotes about Poetry by Russell Baker

Russell Baker American Journalist

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.

Quote by Russell Baker about poetry

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.

Quote by Russell Baker about poetry

I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world.

Quote by Russell Baker about poetry

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

Quote by Russell Baker about poetry