You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering… — Quoted

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

John Ciardi · Poetry

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John Ciardi

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

Dad

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

Art

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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.

Trust

John Ciardi

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

Intelligence