Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.

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• Rodney Dangerfield

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• Pope Francis

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• Edgar Allan Poe

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• John F. Kennedy

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• Mae West

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• Yogi Berra

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• John C. Maxwell

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• Tyler, The Creator

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• George Orwell

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• Vince Lombardi

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• Soren Kierkegaard

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• Walt Disney

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