"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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"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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"You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone."
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-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else."
-Morrie Schwartz
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"The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy."
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"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."
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"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens."
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"For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity."
-William Wordsworth
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