You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
John Ciardi
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It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it. -
The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.
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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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