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Quotes Tagged "philistine"

You know, there are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them. I mean, so what if two roads go two ways in a wood? So what? Who cares if it made all that big a difference? What difference? And why should I have to guess what the difference is? Isn't that what he's supposed to say? Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?
— Gary D. Schmidt Okay for Now
Tags: poetry, philistine
Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Tags: philistine, vulgarity, than, more, nothing
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