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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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Donna Grant

"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."

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Donna Grant

"I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"

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Donna Grant

"Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart."

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Donna Grant

"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars."

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Donna Grant

"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications."

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Donna Grant

"Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes."

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Donna Grant

"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

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Donna Grant

"The value of time is immeasurable."

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Donna Grant

"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."

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Donna Grant

"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

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John Ciardi
"You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone."

Adolescence

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John Ciardi
"The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it."

Classroom

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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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John Ciardi
"Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character."

Character

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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
"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students."

College

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John Ciardi
"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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John Ciardi
"The day will happen whether or not you get up."

Day

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

Art

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John Ciardi
"There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation."

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