Best Quotes by John Ciardi (Top 10)
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The day will happen whether or not you get up.
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There's nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.
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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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You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
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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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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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A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
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The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
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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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The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
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