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Camille Paglia

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.

Camille Paglia

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Camille Paglia learned how to write well by carefully studying poetry and examining the meaning and origin of each word. She believes that modern schools no longer teach this detailed analysis of language and its history.

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