Quotes by John Ciardi

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation...

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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that...

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Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

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Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

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It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish...

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Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to...

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Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the...

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A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

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A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into...

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You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

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Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.

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