"The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can’t understand it or that it will be boring."
― Caroline Kennedy
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Poetry
― Caroline Kennedy
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- "Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don’t always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history."
- "Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now."
- "I never thought I’d be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas."
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- "Sometimes I even now feel like a stranger in my country. But I knew there would be problems because I had seen the world as a skater. And now? A lot of people in eastern Germany have lost jobs, rents went up, food costs went up, unemployment went to 20 percent. Freedom is good, but it is not easy."― Katarina Witt
- "A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry."― Walter Pater
- "I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It’s hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do."― David Antin