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English born American Poet, Dramatist and Editor who achieved early fame in the 1930s as a hero of the left during the Great Depression. 1907-1973

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“A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.”
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“A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb”
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“Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores”
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“A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.”
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“All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation”
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“Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.”
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“No hero is immortal till he dies”
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“'In headaches and in worry Vaguely life leaks away, And Time will have his fancy To-morrow or to-day.”
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“Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy”
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“No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.”
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