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" The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow. "
John Ciardi
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" 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. "
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" Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it! "
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" The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself. "
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" It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions. "
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" Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar. "
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" The day will happen whether or not you get up. "
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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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" A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse. "
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" Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope. "
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" Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen. "
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