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.
Source: Introduction to The Norton Book of Light Verse, Norton 86
-- Russell Baker, (Aug 14 1925-2019), US journalist, author, humorist; He was a columnist for the NY Times; won a Pulitzer, 1982, for his autobiography, Growing Up.