Philip Kent

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    Poetry ... is ... a speaking picture, with this end: to teach and delight.
    —Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)

    Main Street was never the same. I read Gide and tried to
    translate Proust. Now nothing is real except French wine.
    For absurdity is reality, my loneliness unreal, my mind tired.
    And I shall die an old Parisian.
    —Conrad Kent Rivers (1933–1968)