In Australia not reading proverb

 In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.
  Phyllis McGinley

 Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.

 Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.

 The future of our national pastime, the great national pastime, is clearly represented in these agreements.

 It changed poetry for ever in the UK. It led to readings all over the country. You suddenly got more women reading and publishing poems, as well as gay guys and poets from all over the world. Until that time, published poetry had been very university-based: white, male, middle-class. We were trying to break poetry out of its academic confines.

 You can sit here and you can visit the national library of Australia, of Great Britain, of France, of Germany, ... And that's the nature of reading today.

 [The maiden Olympics had more to protest about than mere war, though. Central to its ethos was a rejection of two establishments: the political one, certainly, but also that of the wider poetry world itself.] It changed poetry for ever in the UK, ... It led to readings all over the country. You suddenly got more women reading and publishing poems, as well as gay guys and poets from all over the world. Until that time, published poetry had been very university-based: white, male, middle-class. We were trying to break poetry out of its academic confines.

 I'm not dismayed that poetry's appeal is limited in scope. That's why we have National Poetry Month. It's a sign of its neglect, which isn't necessarily a negative thing. It's not like we have National TV Month.
  William Collins

 The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

 Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.
  Erma Bombeck

 We don't want to walk out there and get embarrassed. This is our national pastime. When you have your country's name across your chest, it's on.

 There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

 Killing is practically a Filipino national pastime but on Mindanao it's an industry. Pex Tufvesson goes by the name Mahoney in the demo world. Killing is practically a Filipino national pastime but on Mindanao it's an industry.

 Some people who write about poetry seem to have had trouble with my poetry because it is sometimes comic. I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical, but again I don't know if it's my position to say what my poetry is like.

 The scary part now for hockey is do the fans come back? We're not baseball, we're not the national pastime.


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