- Interest
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
John Ciardi Quotes
Most Famous John Ciardi Quotes of All Time!
We have created a collection of some of the best john-ciardi quotes so you can read and share anytime with your friends and family. Share our Top 10 John Ciardi Quotes on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Love Is
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Poetry
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
- Better
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
- Happen
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
- Happen
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The day will happen whether or not you get up.
- More
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Give
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow.
- Man
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
- Poetry
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry lies its way to the truth.
- Game
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!
- Earned
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
- Men
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hope
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hope
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
- Constitution
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
- Nothing
- |
- Nov 07, 2020