“I'm smiled out, talked out, quipped out, socialized so far from any being, I need the weight of mortal silences to get realized back into myself.”

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✒️ #JohnCiardi, American poet, #DOTD 30 March 1986. #Poetry #Literature

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✒️ #JohnCiardi, American poet, translator (Dante's "Divine Comedy"), and literary critic, was #BOTD 24 June 1916. #Poetry #Literature