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“The real poet studies the world as it is: lovely, terrible, sensible, grotesque; and would ask for no other in its place. Humor is the final sign and seal of seriousness for it is a proof that reality is held in honor and in love.”   -- Mark van Doren

 

Tommy Simpson
Miro as Courtesan, 1993, painted wood, zinc, and wrought iron.

“ We didn’t know then what we could come to understand; that when our head, heart and body are in the same place at the same time, it is the best of being alive.” --Tommy Simpson

 


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