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“Bob Altman got nothing from the TV series 'M*A*S*H,' and the royalties for the theme song went to his oldest son, Michael, who wrote it as a 15-year-old poet!”

Years Song Son Poet Tvs Series Theme Bob Royalty Tv Series Oldest Son

Author:Mitchell Zuckoff

“The anthology meets with two different kinds of reactions in living poets. They will either write toward the anthology or away from it. Anti-anthology poets often overreach themselves, inflicting protective distortions on their work - as parents in old Central Europe often deliberately maimed their sons to save them from compulsory military service.”

Writing Kind Two Different Parent Military Son Poet Europe Reactions Different Kinds Protective Distortion Anthology Compulsory Military Service

Author:Laura Riding

“Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.”

Time Memories Chance Son Poet Fame Heirs

Book:My Study Windows

Source: My Study Windows

“It is what the poets of Ireland used to be saying, that every brave man, good at fighting, and every man that could do great deeds and not be making much talk about them, was of the Sons of the Gael; and that every skilled man that had music and that did enchantments secretly, was of the Tuatha de Danaan.”

Men Used Fighting Son Poet Brave Deeds Every Man Used To Be Ireland Brave Man Enchantment

Book:The Essential Lady Gregory Collection

Source: The Essential Lady Gregory Collection

“I am a revolutionary, so my son can be a farmer, so his son can be a poet.”

Son Poet Revolutionary My Son Farmers

Author:John Adams