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

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Source : 1962 In the Saturday Review, Fall issue.

John Ciardi

#Inspirational Quotes #Sarcastic Quotes #Children Quotes

“I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.”
“Suburbia is the insidious cartoon of the country house in a cartoon of the country.”
“Anybody can make a difference and be a voice for the voiceless.”
“Friendship warms like a sunbeam; charms like a good story; inspires like a brave leader; binds like a golden chain; guides like a heavenly vision....”
“...what I can do is offer myself, wholehearted and present, to walk with the people I love through the fear and the mess. That's all any of us can do. That's what we're here for.”
“Compassion may be called the fundamental of all good art because it alone can tell you what other beings feel and experience. Only compassion severs the bonds of your personal limitations, and gives you deep access into the inner life of the character you study, without which you cannot properly prepare it for the stage”

Source : Michael Chekhov, Mala Powers (2013). “To the Actor: On the Technique of Acting”, p.90, Routledge
“I've got a couple of those Gossard Wonderbras. They are so brilliant, I swear, even I get cleavage with them.”
“Everyone has a different beauty and different qualities and I think that women need to learn to love their qualities and be comfortable in the fact that everyone is different.”

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