Comic Poet

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“The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.”
—Umberto Eco (b. 1932)

“Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent places; he is word-sick and place-crazy. He admires strength, but for what? Violence! This is the cult of the frontier mind.”
—Edward Dahlberg (1900–1977)