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You do not have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suff

You do not have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. – 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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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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Suffering is part of the divine idea. – Henry Ward Beecher

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We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared. – Edward Dahlberg

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I like a look of Agony, because I know its true — men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe — – Emily Dickinson

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As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. – Sir Richard Francis Burton

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