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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."

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"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."

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"With shrunken fingerswe ate our oranges and bread,shivering in the parked car;though we know we had neverbeen there before,we knew we had been there before."

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"Salvation is neither human effort nor desire."

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"Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low."

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"Love and attraction is the magnetic language of the heart."

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"Let your love be the light of your life. Now enlighten the whole world with the brightness of that light."

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"The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance."

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"I am an American. I love this country."

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"I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult."

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"Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is."

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"My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until recently, but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it."

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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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"Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea."
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"You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone."
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"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students."
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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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"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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"Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone."
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"The day will happen whether or not you get up."
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"Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen."
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