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"You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone" — John Ciardi
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"There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation" — John Ciardi
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"Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character." — John Ciardi
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"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students." — John Ciardi
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"A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse." — John Ciardi
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"The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself" — John Ciardi
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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." — John Ciardi
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"Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!" — John Ciardi
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"The day will happen whether or not you get up." — John Ciardi
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"Bah! You asked for it. This is your life. The price is right enough. You've got no secrets. People are . . . well, never mind. But tell me, boys and girls and Federal gentlemen, has anyone had time to think of Khrushchev lately?" — John Ciardi
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"It's not a how-to-do-it school but more nearly a confessional in which people who have spent their lives at the writing process itemize their failures while clinging to their hopes." — John Ciardi
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"Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen." — John Ciardi
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"It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions." — John Ciardi
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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." — John Ciardi
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"But when the pen is in his hand he has to write by itch and twitch, though certainly his itch and twitch are intimately conditioned by all his past itching and twitching, and by all his past theorizing about them." — John Ciardi
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"Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old." — John Ciardi
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"Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone" — John Ciardi
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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" — John Ciardi
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"The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it" — John Ciardi
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"The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself." — John Ciardi
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"Poetry lies its way to the truth." — John Ciardi
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