Comic Poet

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

“The poet is like the prince of the clouds
Who haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer;
Exiled on the ground in the midst of jeers,
His giant’s wings prevent him from walking.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)