"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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"Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.“
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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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"Poetry lies its way to the truth."
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"You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone."
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-A. A. Milne
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"Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see."
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"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"
-John Keats
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"I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues."
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"Wit is educated insolence."
-Aristotle
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"In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office."
-Ambrose Bierce
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