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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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A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students. – John Ciardi

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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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My poetry, I think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me. – Countee Cullen (1903–1946)

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The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse. – Robert Morgan

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Pounds translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later. – Robert Morgan

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