John Ciardi Quotes

A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a b...

Boys are the cash of war. Whoever said: we're not free spenders- doesn't know our like.

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal with nothing to do but keep his ...

(Conviction) is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can ...

Most Like an Arch This MarriageMost like an arch—an entrance which upholds and shores the stone-crus...

And the time sundials tellMay be minutes and hours. But it may just as wellBe seconds and sparkles, ...

He had his choice, and he liked the worst.

I have one head that wants to be good,And one that wants to be bad.And always, as soon as I get up,O...

Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation kno...

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

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-age...

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

The day will happenwhether or not you get up

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

If a man means his writing seriously he must mean to write well. But how can he write well until he...

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they hav...

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

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

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y...

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

You have to fall in love with hanging around words.