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John Ciardi Quotes

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dramatist
Nationality: english
Birth: June 24, 1916 - March 30, 1986

Topics

Truth Poetry Way Lies

Certainly if I were to think in terms of a field that would have required a different mode of education, I think I would have leaned in the direction of being a therapist. And without the education, or a different kind of education, I think my first choice would be a landscape architect. I love to garden.

Education Love Direction Think Kind

We need to change how we run banks. We need to change the culture. If we get it right, we can have a huge impact.

Ana Patricia Botin

Change Culture Impact Run Need Get

My own personal conviction is that if I were writing without thinking about how images or how journalism is creating a world for us, I would not be happy about it.

Happy Be Happy Writing World My Own

Much as I like and admire Richard Dawkins, I do think that to call a book 'The God Delusion' is very worrying because the title implies that if you don't believe in what I believe then you are 'deluded.' That, I think, is a dangerous concept and one that is unlikely to win hearts and minds.

God Win Book Believe Think You

How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don't you ask him? And besides, maybe we'd all like to be like Miles, and just haven't got the guts.

Dizzy Gillespie

You Know Why Ask Him Stage

Stand-up is the only thing I have complete control over. There's something to be said for that.

Control Said Over Something Complete

Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the consequences of humanitarian crises, whether natural or man-made.

Pope Benedict XVI

Consequences Duty Protect Human Own

Vice presidents are supposed to be eternally loyal, which is why it is so difficult for some to figure out how to succeed their bosses.

Succeed Why Difficult Out Vice Some

There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.

Good Quality Architecture Need Real

The most important thing is to stay humble because there are always people telling you that you're this and that you're going to do that.

Shanice Williams

Humble People You Important Always

Some of the most amazing human beings on the face of the planet go to sci-fi conventions, although I'm sure a few of them wouldn't admit it.

Amazing Face Admit Go Human Planet

More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly without fear, of anything. He wasn't afraid of looking uncool - he wasn't scared to openly love innocence, or to be optimistic, or to write sentimentally when he felt that way.

Love Fear Science Great Looking Way

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