{"author":"John Ciardi","author_id":"John+Ciardi","total_quotes":24,"quotes":[{"text":"He had his choice, and he liked the worst.","author":"John Ciardi","tags":["bad-taste","choice","choosing","poor-taste","taste"],"id":9065,"author_id":"John+Ciardi"},{"text":"You have to fall in love with hanging around words.","author":"John Ciardi","tags":["words","language"],"id":19131,"author_id":"John+Ciardi"},{"text":"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.","author":"John Ciardi","tags":["love is","young","excitement "],"id":40200,"author_id":"John+Ciardi"},{"text":"Boys are the cash of war. Whoever said: we're not free spenders- doesn't know our like.","author":"John Ciardi","tags":["war"],"id":44757,"author_id":"John+Ciardi"},{"text":"And the time sundials tellMay be minutes and hours. But it may just as wellBe seconds and sparkles, or seasons and flowers.No, I don't think of time as just minutes and hours.Time can be heartbeats, or bird songs, or miles,Or waves on a beach, or ants in their files(They do move like seconds—just watch their feet go:Tick-tick-tick, like a clock). You'll learn as you growThat whatever there is in a garden, the sunCounts up on its dial. By the time it is doneOur sundial—or someone's— will certainly addAll the good things there are. Yes, and all of the bad.And if anyone's here for the finish, the sunWill have told him—by sundial—how well we have done.How well we have done, or how badly. Alas,That is a long thought. Let me hope we all pass.","author":"John Ciardi","tags":["sundial","sundials","time"],"id":58419,"author_id":"John+Ciardi"},{"text":"(Conviction) is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only by ignoring the radical describers of his environment  or by hating them  as convinced men have hated  say  Darwin and Freud  as agents of some devil.","author":"John Ciardi","tags":["conviction","belief"],"id":63928,"author_id":"John+Ciardi"},{"text":"Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity.","author":"John Ciardi","tags":["history","identity","language","nation"],"id":86512,"author_id":"John+Ciardi"},{"text":"You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. ","author":"John Ciardi","tags":["suffering","you","adolescence "],"id":91471,"author_id":"John+Ciardi"},{"text":"Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.","author":"John Ciardi","tags":["genius","happen","will "],"id":94065,"author_id":"John+Ciardi"},{"text":"Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.","author":"John Ciardi","tags":["time","father","parent "],"id":135790,"author_id":"John+Ciardi"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}