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“Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.”

John Ciardi · Intelligence

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John Ciardi

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

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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

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Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

Love

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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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