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John Ciardi

"A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea."

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"A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea."

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"An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!"

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"Unless you close your door to other ideas, you will never remain idealess!"

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"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."

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"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."

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"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."

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"Actually I like the idea of being a Renaissance hack. If tombstones were still in style, I would want to have the two words chiseled right under my name."

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"It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public."

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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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"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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"The day will happen whether or not you get up."
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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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"The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it."
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"The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow."
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