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I am one of the endangered species: people who still write in meter and rime.

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The tremendous fun of writing in rhyme is reeling in whatever it is you've caught and being surprised by it.

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Let you hold in mind, girls, that your beauty must pass
Like a lovely white clover that rusts with its grass.
Keep your bottoms off barstools and marry you young
Or be left--an old barrel with many a bung.


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On solemn asses fall plush sinecures, So keep a straight face and sit tight on yours.

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The Purpose of Time is to Prevent Everything from Happening at Once

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One of the first signs of the beginnings of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one will only in time come to hate.
Franz Kafka

X. J. Kennedy

X. J. Kennedy

Born: August 21, 1929 (age 95)
Bio: X. J. Kennedy is a poet, translator, anthologist, editor, and author of children's literature and textbooks on English literature and poetry. He was long known as Joe Kennedy; but, wishing to distinguish himself from Joseph P.
Known for:
  1. Literature (1998)
  2. An introduction to poetry (1966)
  3. The Bedford guide for college writers (1987)
  4. An introduction to fiction (1976)
  5. The Brief Bedford Reader (1987)

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