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> [“Perhaps I should kiss the face of the kitchen clock for luck. Perhaps its little hands with rapture would encircle my neck and we might be happy. I am sure happiness is not too far away”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-edson/perhaps-i-should-kiss-the-face-of-the-kitchen-clock-for-luck-perhaps/)

[Russell Edson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-edson/)

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## More by Russell Edson

> [“Perhaps I should kiss the face of the kitchen clock for luck. Perhaps its little hands with rapture would encircle my neck and we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-edson/perhaps-i-should-kiss-the-face-of-the-kitchen-clock-for-luck-perhaps/)

[Russell Edson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-edson/)

> [“…description is deadly to a prose poem.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-edson/description-is-deadly-to-a-prose-poem/)

[Russell Edson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-edson/)

> [“There’s only the writing, which I admit to knowing very little about. But then it’s probably best not to know. It allows one to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-edson/there-s-only-the-writing-which-i-admit-to-knowing-very-little-about/)

[Russell Edson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-edson/)

> [“So Mr Brain opened his mouth to let a moonbeam into his head.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-edson/so-mr-brain-opened-his-mouth-to-let-a-moonbeam-into-his-head/)

[Russell Edson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-edson/)

> [“I think, therefore I am, said a man whose mother quickly hit him on the head, saying, I hit my son on the head,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-edson/i-think-therefore-i-am-said-a-man-whose-mother-quickly-hit-him-on-the/)

[Russell Edson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-edson/)

> [The best advice I can give is to ignore advice. Life is too short to be distracted by the opinions of others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-edson/the-best-advice-i-can-give-is-to-ignore-advice-life-is-too-short-to/)

[Russell Edson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-edson/)

> [“ Let us consider the farmer who makes his straw hat his sweetheart; or the old woman who makes a floor lamp her son;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-edson/let-us-consider-the-farmer-who-makes-his-straw-hat-his-sweetheart-or/)

[Russell Edson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-edson/)

> [“I never liked the term “experimental writing,” but what else is a prose poem? Having written a number of them, I still don’t know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-edson/i-never-liked-the-term-experimental-writing-but-what-else-is-a-prose/)

[Russell Edson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-edson/)

> [“Remember, words are the enemy of poetry.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-edson/remember-words-are-the-enemy-of-poetry/)

[Russell Edson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-edson/if-one-cannot-accept-failure-and-scorn-how-is-he-to-make-his-art-it-s/)

[Russell Edson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-edson/)

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