John Ciardi
John Ciardi
John Anthony Ciardiwas an American poet, translator, and etymologist. 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. In 1959, Ciardi published a book on how to read, write, and teach poetry, How Does a Poem Mean?, which has proven to be among the most-used books of its...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDramatist
Date of Birth24 June 1916
The day will happen whether or not you get up.
Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.
The public library is the most dangerous place in town
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.