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 who speaks out of the deepest instincts of man will be heard. The poet who creates a myth beyond the power of man to realize is gagged at the peril of the group that binds him. He is the true revolutionary: he builds a new world.”
—Babette Deutsch (1895–1982)