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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000003.txt from 2003/10

From: Oboeeee@-----.com
Subj: [DR-L] Quote of the Day
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 20:13:21 -0400

"Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you=E2=80=94like mu
sic to the
musician or Marxism to the Communist=E2=80=94or else it is nothing, an empt
y
formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and
explanations."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896=E2=80=931940) American author
Letter, August 3, 1940, to his daughter Frances Scott Fitzgerald