Russell Edson
If one cannot accept failure and scorn, how is he to make his art? It’s like wanting to go to heaven without dying.
Russell Edson
Russell Edson was an American poet, novelist, writer and illustrator, and the son of the cartoonist-screenwriter Gus Edson. He studied art early in life and attended the Art Students League as a teenager. He began publishing poetry in the 1960s. Wikipedia
Russell Edson was a marvelous poet who wrote prose poetry that can easily be recognized as his even without his name on it. He established a prose poem style that was uniquely his. His, above, quote always comforts and inspires me when my knees get shaky.
If you’ve never sampled his work, do. It’s sorta like getting to go to heaven….without dying.