It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of... -John Ciardi

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.

John Ciardi , Dramatist
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John Ciardi Quotes to Explore

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their...
A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of green...
Poetry lies its way to the truth....
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone....
What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as ...
Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope....
Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen....
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea....
Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old....

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The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want....
You get people who come to London, sever links with where they come from, and then when they need people, there's nobody there. To feel like you can't...
Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad....
It sounds so nerdy and pathetic, but what I always do on Sunday afternoon is bring my inbox down to zero, which is so sad. But e-mail has become like ...
I get to play characters that kind of shock people and I enjoy doing that. I like characters that have meaning and get people in the heart. I want to ...
I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you going to write about? No ghosts, no fe...
The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them, 'Ok, be sad now.'...
I'm not going to do a song that's really sad and thoughtful. Although I've done ballads like 'Dear Darlin',' I want to make them dance and be happy....
If people are paying money to see me, then I want them to walk away from the show knowing they had a really great time. I want it to be very energetic...
I don't really do sad, depressing songs....