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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."

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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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Donna Grant

"People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery."

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Donna Grant

"Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth."

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Donna Grant

"The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same."

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Donna Grant

"A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth."

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Donna Grant

"The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction."

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Donna Grant

"There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."

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Donna Grant

"Poor men's reasons are not heard."

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Donna Grant

"Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor."

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Donna Grant

"All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot."

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Donna Grant

"He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men."

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John Ciardi
"Poetry lies its way to the truth."

Poetry

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

Fun

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John Ciardi
"A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea."

Idea

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

Intelligence

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

Money

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

Adolescence

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John Ciardi
"The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow."

Opinion

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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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