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You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

John Ciardi

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.
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