John Ciardi Quotes
- The day will happen whether or not you get up.
- 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.
- Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
- 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…
- Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
- A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
- Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
- You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
- Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
- The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
- A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
- Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.
- Boys are the cash of war. Whoever said: we're not free spenders- doesn't know our like.
- Fermentation and civilization are inseparable.
- Fermentation equals civilization.
- It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their conviction. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation…
- The thing about cats as you might find, is that no one knows what they have in mind.
- The constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
- General rules have been legislated into being by past masters.
- Patience is the art of caring slowly.