"Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!"
-Phyllis McGinley
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"Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause."
-Phyllis McGinley
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"Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure."
-Phyllis McGinley
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"Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful."
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"Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man."
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"Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone."
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"I write poetry in order to live more fully."
-Judith Rodriguez
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"He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech."
-John Colville
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"Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold."
-Diane Glancy
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"Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job."
-Toi Derricotte
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"For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ."
-Christopher Smart
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"I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion."
-Zona Gale
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