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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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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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