"Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it"
- Russell Baker
About this Quote
This quote by Russell Baker is a commentary on the public's mindset towards poetry. He is suggesting that the public has an unfavorable view of poetry, anticipating it to be a chore to check out. He compares this mindset to carrying heavy baggage through O'Hare Airport, suggesting that the general public finds poetry to be a tiresome and undesirable task. Baker thinks that this mindset is to the general public's detriment, as they are missing out on the beauty and power of poetry by not reading it. He is recommending that the public needs to be more open up to reading poetry, as it can be a satisfying and enriching experience.
This quote is written / told by Russell Baker between August 14, 1925 and January 21, 2019. He was a famous Journalist from USA.
The author also have 28 other quotes.
"We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry"
"Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going"
"I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that"
