All John Ciardi Quotes
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.
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Love
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You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
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Poetry
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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
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Art
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Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!
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The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
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Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
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Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
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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.
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The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
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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.
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Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.
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