Best Quotes by John Ciardi (Top 10)

  1. The day will happen whether or not you get up.
  2. There's nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.
  3. Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
  4. You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
  8. The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
  9. Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
  10. The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

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