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An old dissembler who lived out his lie Lies here as if he did not fear to die.
J. V. Cunningham
She said he was a man who cheated. He said she didn't play the game. She said an expletive deleted. He said the undeleted same. And so they ended their relation With meaningful communication.
J. V. Cunningham
Poetry is what looks like poetry, what sounds like poetry. It is metrical composition.
J. V. Cunningham
What is needed is a noticeable unnoticeable style,... a directness of speech that seems to one judging easily imitable, to one trying it nothing less so.
J. V. Cunningham
Despise me not And not be queasy To praise somewhat Verse is not easy.
J. V. Cunningham
Grief restrains grief as dams torrential rain And time grows fertile with extended pain.
J. V. Cunningham
With an a natural affinity for the epigram genre, I am, so to speak, a short breathed man and have an almost unthoughtout preference for brief definitive statements.
J. V. Cunningham
Plato, despair! We prove by norms How numbers bear Empiric forms, How random wrong Will average right If time be long And error slight, But in our hearts Hyperbole Curves and departs To infinity. Error is boundless. Nor hope nor doubt, Though both be groundless, Will average out.
J. V. Cunningham
J. V. Cunningham
Occupation:
American Poet
Born:
August 23, 1911
Died:
March 30, 1985
Quotes count:
9
Wikipedia:
J. V. Cunningham
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