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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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A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students. – 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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She was the Judy Garland of American poetry. – James Dickey

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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it. – Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

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One cant write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who dont like poetry. – Nathalie Sarraute

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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. – A. R. Ammons

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No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief. – John Calvin

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