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Quote by John Ciardi
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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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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It is good for me that I was afflicted that I may learn Thy statutes. Psalms 119:71 – Bible

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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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