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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.

Source: Recalled on his death, in NY Times, 2 Apr 1986.
-- John Ciardi, (Jun 24 1916-1986), English dramatist, actor, author; He was an award-winning writer best known for the English translation of Dante's Inferno, 1954.

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