and thought it was so good, that I am quoting her here on my little blog. So here's one for all you poets out there, struggling with the "tough language."
“When people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn’t be read at school because it is irrelevant, I suspect that the people doing the saying have had things pretty easy. A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is.”
Jeanette Winterson, author, of: Why Be Happy, When You Can Be Normal?
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