"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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"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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"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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"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
-William Shakespeare
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"Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel."
-Doris Lessing
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"It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult and very brave."
-Nicole Kidman
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"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."
-Steve Jobs
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"I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself."
-Robert E. Lee
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