John Anthony Ciardi ( CHAR-dee; Italian: [ˈtʃardi]; June 24, 1916 – March 30, 1986) was an American poet, translator, and etymologist. While primarily known as a poet and translator of Dante's Divine Comedy, he also wrote several volumes of children's poetry, pursued etymology, contributed to the Saturday Review as a...
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.