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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.

Source: Introduction to The Norton Book of Light Verse, by Norton, 1986.
-- 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.

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