John Ciardi's Quote - You dont have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough sufferi

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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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There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation. – 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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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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Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity. – Walter Mosley

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I think Im a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and Im not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesnt work and why. – Diane Wakoski

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For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I dont have control over whether this feeling is in me or not. – Ian Hamilton Finlay

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