"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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"You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.“
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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."
-John Ciardi
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"Poetry lies its way to the truth."
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"I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry."
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"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."
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"Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat."
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"The poetry of the earth is never dead."
-John Keats
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"There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry."
-Emily Dickinson
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"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."
-Emily Dickinson
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