Quote by John Ciardi
Poetry lies its way to the truth. - John Ciardi

Poetry lies its way to the truth. – 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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A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students. – John Ciardi

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I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world. – Kenneth Koch

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Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content. – Alfred de Musset, Le Poète déchu, 1839

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Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. – John Keats

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I write poetry in order to live more fully. – Judith Rodriguez

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