Quotes of John Ciardi

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

- John Ciardi

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“ Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. ”

- Mary Roberts Rinehart

“ Is there any positive energy like enthusiasm? ”

- Lailah Gifty Akita

“ Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. ”

- Joan Crawford

“ Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back . . . then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else. ”

- Sarah Cross

“ Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results. ”

- Ernest Shackleton

“ The path is paved with consistent, conscious mental and spiritual alertness and the gradual growth of goodness in our heart and clarity in our mind. We are awake. If we keep trying to understand, we will understand. If we keep telling ourselves that we are loved by Life and if we keep looking for evidence of that love, we will find it. ”

- Donna Goddard

“ Could you exist just for the art of existence? ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But then you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible. ”

- Camille Paglia

“ Morning is when the wick is lit. A flame ignited, the day delighted with heat and light, we start the fight for something more than before. ”

- Jeb Dickerson

“ Your Dreams Matter. Like an athlete trains, so must the student of life. Train the mind, body and spirit, so you may achieve anything. Life is about sharing your dreams/purpose (gifts/passions/talents) with the world and helping others find their way. ”

- Elizabeth SalamancaBrosig

“ Close your eyes, take your time and listen. ”

- Maxime Lagacé

“ Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense. ”

- e.e. cummings

“ If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse. ”

- Walt Disney

“ It is our wounds that create in us a desire to reach for miracles. The fulfillment of such miracles depends on whether we let our wounds pull us down or lift us up towards our dreams. ”

- Jocelyn Soriano

“ Though lovers be lost love shall not. ”

- Dylan Thomas

“ We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love. ”

- Mother Teresa

“ Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. ”

- Max Ehrmann

“ Woman is a delicate creature with strong emotions who has been created by the Almighty God to shoulder responsibility for educating society and moving toward perfection. God created woman as symbol of His own beauty and to give solace to her partner and her family. ”

- Ali Ibn Abi Talib A.S

“ We need hearts with restored empathy And homes with restored hope ”

- Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“ You need just the right amount of 'Fuck the world' and the right amount of belief in something...and you need the right amount of love. ”

- Gerard Way

“ I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ I hope she'll be a fool that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. ”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

“ Sometimes, as we're stumbling along in the dark, we hit something good. ”

- Susan Ee

“ Life is a game and true love is a trophy. ”

- Rufus Wainwright

“ When love comes like that, all you can do is surrender, to lay down your arms and submit to the will of those who would love you. For in denying it, you face only regret. ”

- Michael Kilman