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Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through OHare Airport, the public, to its loss,
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"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

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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.

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USA Flag 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.

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