Quote by John Ciardi
You dont have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough sufferi

You dont have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. – John Ciardi

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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. – John Ciardi

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Love
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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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Change
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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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Trust
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[P]oetry… folds its wings at the rough contact of reality… it feels in one sense much more, and in another much less, than the soul engaged with reality… – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Poetry

“Therefore” is a word the poet must not know. – André Gide

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Poetry

The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who dont go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. Its always so. – Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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Poetry

On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people. – Hu Shih

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Poetry

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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes. – E. M. Forster

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We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights. – Pearl Buck

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I love sports. Anytime I can combine sports with a film Im a happy guy. Its such a natural fit, because sports always seems to be a metaphor for life. Always, always, always. – Dean Cain

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