"Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen." ― John Ciardi Topic(s): Intelligence More From John Ciardi "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." "You don’t have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone." "Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea." More In Intelligence "I want to exude strength and intelligence."― Portia de Rossi "Foreign Ministry guys don’t become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies."― Aldrich Ames "Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult – often impossible – for us to share information with the Central Intelligence Agency, with NSA, with the other intelligence agencies, and likewise, for them to share information with us."― Robert Mueller