John Ciardi Quotes

English - Dramatist June 24, 1916 - March 30, 1986

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

World, Classroom, Escape, Should

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

Poetry, Suffering, Enough, You, Poet

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. John Ciardi

Art, Better, Looking, Stop, Persuade

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation. John Ciardi

Sobriety, Nothing, Wrong, Moderation

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

Love, Love Is, Young, Excitement, Old

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope. John Ciardi

Father, Hope, Time, Parent, House, Open

Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it! John Ciardi

Game, Fun, Way, Hard, Things, Mankind

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

Neighborhood, Worse, Changing, Area

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea. John Ciardi

Good, Hope, Seed, Place, Landscape, Bear

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

Character, Man, Nothing, Need, Surviving

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

College, Students, University, Interest

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

Intelligence, Genius, Will, Happen

The day will happen whether or not you get up. - John Ciardi

The day will happen whether or not you get up. John Ciardi

Day, You, Will, Happen, Up, Get

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down. John Ciardi

Trust, Pen, Down, Feel, Poet, Only

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

Warm, Sugar, Milk, Sponge, Written

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

Opinion, Deserve, Honest, Him, Give, He

Poetry lies its way to the truth. John Ciardi

Truth, Poetry, Way, Lies

A dollar saved is a quarter earned. John Ciardi

Dollar, Earned, Quarter, Saved

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions. John Ciardi

Courage, Sad, Men, Generation, Wish

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

Money, Rich, Ancestors, Gone, Over, Left

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

Fool, Constitution, American, Right

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