At the next vacancy for God, if I am elected, I shall forgive last the delicately wounded who, having been slugged no harder than anyone else, never got up again, neither to fight back, nor to finger their jaws in painful admiration.
John Ciardi Quotes
You don’t have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough.
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| Birth: | 24th June, 1916 |
| Death: | 30th March, 1986 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Poet, Professor, Translator |
About
John Anthony Ciardi was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an American poet, translator and professor. While primarily known as a poet, he also translated Dante's Divine Comedy, wrote several volumes of children's poetry, pursued etymology, contributed to the Saturday Review as a columnist and long-time poetry editor, and directed the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in Vermont. Ciardi's impact on poetry is perhaps best measured through the younger poets whom he influenced as a teacher and as editor of the Saturday Review. He earned a BA degree from Tufts University in 1938. He earned an MA degree from the University of Michigan in 1939. He served as a professor at the University of Missouri in Kansas City, Harvard University, and Rutgers University. He wrote several poems include: Homeward to America, Person to Person, The Little That Is All, Limericks, Too Gross (with Isaac Asimov), For Instance, A Grossery of Limericks (with Isaac Asimov), and The Birds of Pompeii.
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