Comic Poet

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

“Old Drayton thought that a man that lived here, and would be a poet ... should have in him certain “brave, translunary things,” and a “fine madness” should possess his brain. Certainly it were as well, that he might be up to the occasion.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)