From an old notebook

“A man will always promenade whatever lady is with him at the time of the call to his home position.”

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“How many poems do you write a week?”

“Only one a week, but I’ve had over three hundred and forty poems published.”

[Heard on a poetry program on public radio.]

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“I had something Tibetan going.”

[Heard on a poetry program on public radio.]

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A terrific blank settled in,
its name was Introduction to Literary Criticism.

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This, gentlemen, is the icing on the cake of confidence.

[From a student essay on “To His Coy Mistress.”]

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“One more slang expression and you’re grounded!”

Also from an old notebook
Alfalfa, Ted Berrigan, Jack Kerouac, metaphors : Alfred Appel Jr. on twentieth-century art and literature : Barney : Beauty and the Beast and kid talk : Eleanor Roosevelt : John Ashbery and Kenneth Koch : Plato, Shirley Temple, vulgarity, wisdom, Stan Laurel