John Ciardi Quotes
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Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
John Ciardi
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Author Details:
Type:
Dramatist Quotes
Category:
English Dramatist Quotes
Date of Birth:
June 24, 1916
Date of Death:
March 30, 1986
Nationality:
English
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Related Authors:
William Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
Thomas Dekker
Tom Stoppard
Alan Bennett
Harold Pinter
William Wycherley
Douglas William Jerrold
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Select John Ciardi Quotations:
The day will happen whether or not you get up.
John Ciardi
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.
John Ciardi
Poetry lies its way to the truth.
John Ciardi
Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
John Ciardi
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
John Ciardi
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
John Ciardi
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
John Ciardi
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Quote Keywords:
Act,
Character,
Further,
Goes,
His,
Liberation,
Man,
Need,
Nothing,
Surviving,
Than,
Toward
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Dictionary Links:
Act,
Character,
Further,
His,
Liberation,
Man,
Need,
Nothing,
Surviving,
Than,
Toward
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All John Ciardi Quotations:
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
A good question is never answered...
A neighborhood is a residential area...
A university is what a college...
Every game ever invented by mankind...
Every parent is at some time...
Gentility is what is left over...
Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes...
It is easy enough to praise...
Love is the word used to...
Modern art is what happens when...
Nothing goes further toward a man's...
Poetry lies its way to the truth.
The classroom should be an entrance...
The Constitution gives every American the inalienable...
The day will happen whether or...
The reader deserves an honest opinion...
There is nothing wrong with sobriety...
What has any poet to trust...
Written by a sponge dipped in...
You don't have to suffer to...
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