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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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It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions. – 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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As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. – Sir Richard Francis Burton

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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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No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing. – Claudius

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Ive suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone. – Richard Armour

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