“For blows on the fort of evil
That never shows a breach,
For terrible life-long races
To a goal no foot can reach,
For reckless leaps into darkness
With hands outstretched to a star,
There is jubilation in Heaven
Where the great dead poets are.”

—  Joyce Kilmer

Main Street and Other Poems (1917), Apology

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American poet, editor, literary critic, soldier 1886–1918

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