"What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down."
-John Ciardi
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"Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.“
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