You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
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Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.
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The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
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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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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
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