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John Ciardi on Poetry You don’t have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. - John Ciardi Quotes, Famous Quotes, John Ciardi, Poetry
Walt Whitman – sunshine "Keep your face always towards the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you." ~Walt Whitman
Poem of the day – Beginners by Walt Whitman How they are provided for upon the earth, (appearing at intervals,)How dear and dreadful they are to the earth,How they inure to themselves as much as to any--what a paradox appears their age,How people respond to them, yet know them not,How there is something relentless in their fate all times,How all times mischoose the ...
Poem of the day – To a Historian by Walt Whitman You who celebrate bygones,Who have explored the outward, the surfaces of the races, the life that has exhibited itself,Who have treated of man as the creature of politics, aggregates, rulers and priests,I, habitan of the Alleghanies, treating of him as he is in himself in his own rights,Pressing the pulse ...
Poem of the day – Life and Death by Walt Whitman The two old, simple problems ever intertwined,Close home, elusive, present, baffled, grappled.By each successive age insoluble, pass'd on,To ours to-day--and we pass on the same. - Life and Death by Walt Whitman