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{{quote|"People, yes people are the true flowers of life and it has been a pleasure to have strolled in your garden."
|Lord Buckley, quoted by [[Robin Williams]] on ''Throbbing Python of Love''}}
{{quote|"Buckley was the hipster bebop preacher who defied all labels."
|[[Bob Dylan]], ''Chronicles''}}
'''Lord Richard Buckley''' (born Richard Myrle Buckley; April 5, 1906 – November 12, 1960) was an American poet/humorist/monologist whose work from the 1940s onward anticipated and embraced the [[Beatnik]] generation and its sensibilities. His unique style and stage persona has influenced several generations of performers, including such diverse figures as Dizzy Gillespie, [[Lenny Bruce]], Wavy Gravy, Del Close, and, even after Buckley's death, [[Ken Kesey]], [[George Harrison]], [[Tom Waits]], [[Frank Zappa]], [[Robin Williams]], and [[Jimmy Buffett]]. ''The New York Times'' once described him as "an unlikely persona ... part English royalty, part Dizzy Gillespie." ''The Baltimore Sun'' called him "a magnificent stand-up comedian" and said that "... Buckley's work, his very presence, projected the sense that life's most immortal truths lie in the inextricable weaving together of love and irony — affection for all humanity married to laughter."
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