English - Dramatist | June 24, 1916 - March 30, 1986
The day will happen whether or not you get up.
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.
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Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.
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Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
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Poetry lies its way to the truth.
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A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
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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.
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Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.
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The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
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