Literature/poetry

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    In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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    Most people ignore most poetry
    because
    most poetry ignores most people.
    Adrian Mitchell (b. 1932)