John Ciardi

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish…

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to…

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

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns…

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into…

Poetry lies its way to the truth…

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation…

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that…

You don’t have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone…