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John Ciardi has 45 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• The day will happen whether or not you get up.
• Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence…
• Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to…
• A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted…
• Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
• A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
• Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
• You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

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