Australia Quote by Phyllis McGinley Download Open image “In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.” — Phyllis McGinley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Australia Pastime Poetry Poetry is Reading Reading poetry
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't… — Peter Porter Copy Share Image
When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like another country… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Most Americans do not like poetry. We may respect it, but we do not enjoy it. — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in the wildness… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Tomorrow will come and today will pass, / But the hearts of the young are brittle as glass. — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Borrow my umbrellas, my clothes, my money, and I will likely not think of them again. But borrow my books and I will be… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares into her writing case and listens on the phone. — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession. — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon seekers, bent on improbable… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair,… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in the… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
I've always been of the idea that is doesn't really matter where you are geographically - with 'Lonerism,' we made half the album in… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I wanted to have a peaceful married life with my wife, so we both moved to Sydney in Australia. — Rahul Roy Copy Share Image
It will be nice to play against Australia. It's a great country, and football is getting bigger and bigger. — Juan Mata Copy Share Image
I think that prosecuting some college kid because she shared a file is a lot like sending somebody to Australia 200 years ago for… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
Sydney CBD is the eastern city, Parramatta is the central city and Badgerys will be the third city in greater Sydney. — Gladys Berejiklian Copy Share Image
No matter what day we celebrate Australia Day, let's celebrate it together and give thanks to the original inhabitants of this vast country. We… — Jimmy Barnes Copy Share Image
As a young kid you stay up late to watch the Ashes, getting told off for not being in bed, and dream of making… — Jonny Bairstow Copy Share Image
I love coming out to Australia, if it weren't so far away I would go all the time. I've worked with a lot of… — Erick Morillo Copy Share Image
What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by the English. — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image
Okay the names 360, I run around tipsy. My fellas in Australia all sit with me. — 360 Copy Share Image
