"People say modernism killed poetry for them: it doesn't rhyme, it doesn't touch a popular musical oral tradition. Years ago, you memorized and read poetry; it was one of the things you were forced to learn. Now it has tiny role in school."

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Source : "Campbell McGrath on Poetry, Walt Whitman and Schaefer Beer" by Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, www.wsj.com. March 01, 2008.

Campbell McGrath

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“There is a radicalism in all getting, and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative.”
“An atheist has got one point beyond the devil.”
“There's always opportunity in the now. If I'm there, I will seize it.”
“People change their opinion according to your position. And both politicians and bureaucrats begin to take you more seriously, as they suddenly feel you have become more important”
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“The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine.”
“Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy of Order”

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