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John Ciardi

"Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope."

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Amber Hurdle

"Always keep in mind how you can best use this time that you call life."

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"I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way."

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"Time is an illusion of life the life of the past and the future clouds men from the true life of the present."

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"Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them."

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"Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough."

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"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

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"When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time."

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"Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent."

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"Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it."

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"You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time."

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John Ciardi
"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."

Men

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"Poetry lies its way to the truth."

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"Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone."

Money

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John Ciardi
"The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself."

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"Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!"

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"Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen."

Intelligence

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John Ciardi
"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."

Love

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John Ciardi
"Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope."

Time

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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."

Trust

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"Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea."

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