In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.
From Russell Baker
Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart.
Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.
I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.
Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.
Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.
Americans like fat books and thin women.
In America nothing dies easier than tradition.
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