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Poetry lies its way to the truth. - John Ciardi

Poetry lies its way to the truth. – John Ciardi

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Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope. – John Ciardi

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dad
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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

Category:
Change
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Poetry
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In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change. – John Barton

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Poetry

The musician – if he be a good one – finds his own perception prompted by the poets perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music. – John Drinkwater

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Poetry

What is poetry which does not save nations or people? – Czeslaw Milosz

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Poetry

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears. – Alfred Douglas

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Poetry

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Mans unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. – Thomas Carlyle

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Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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