Quotes by John Ciardi

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns...

#John Ciardi

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

#John Ciardi

The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him...

#John Ciardi

The day will happen whether or not you get up.

#John Ciardi

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

#John Ciardi

The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.

#Classroom

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

#John Ciardi

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for...

#John Ciardi

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for...

#Speech

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

#Parents

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

#College, #University

But when the pen is in his hand he has to write by itch and...

#Writing