"Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea."
-John Ciardi
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"A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.“
-John Ciardi
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"It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions."
-John Ciardi
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"Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope."
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"Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old."
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"Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen."
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"Poetry lies its way to the truth."
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"The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope."
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"One lives in the hope of becoming a memory."
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"There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope."
-Gerard Way
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"My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here."
-Jim Henson
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