Comic Poet

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“And in a comic mood
In mid-air take to bed a wife.”
—Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)

“The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1966)