"I wrote things for the school’s newspaper, and – like all teenagers – I dabbled in poetry."
― Stephen Colbert
Topic(s):
Poetry
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More In Poetry
- "If a poem is not memorable, there’s probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable."― Robert Morgan
- "If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there – not because you’ve done a comedy performance but because you’re talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul."― Roger McGough
- "France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic."― Charles Baudelaire