Quotes by John Ciardi

John Ciardi

A dollar saved is a quarter earned.

Dollars

Funny

Humor

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.

Change

Growth

Ideas

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Areas

City Life

Neighborhood

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

Civilization

Race

Savages

A university is a reading and discussion club. If students knew how to use the library, they wouldn’t need the rest of the buildings. The faculty’s job, in great part, is to teach students how to use a library in a living way. All a student should really need is access to the library and a place to sleep.

Jobs

Reading

Sleep

At the next vacancy for God, if I am elected, I shall forgive last the delicately wounded who, having been slugged no harder than anyone else, never got up again, neither to fight back, nor to finger their jaws in painful admiration.

Fighting

Forgiving

Boys are the cash of war.

Boys

Cash

War

Conviction is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only by ignoring the radical describers of his environment, or by hating them, as convinced men have hated, say, Darwin and Freud, as agents of some devil.

Devil

Hate

Men

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

Dad

Father

Hope

If a man means his writing seriously, he must mean to write well. But how can he write well until he learns to see what he has written badly. His progress toward good writing and his recognition of bad writing are bound to unfold at something like the same rate.

Mean

Men

Writing

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Animal

Areas

Beer

Believe

Boys

Cash

Change

Character

Children

City Life

Civilization

Classroom

Dad

Dangerous

Destruction

Devil

Doctors

Dollars

Drinking

Entrances

Fall

Falling In Love

Father

Fighting

Forgiving

Funny

Genius

Giving

Growth

Hanging Around

Happened

Happens

Hate

Honest

Hope

Humor

Ideas

Identity

Inspirational

Jobs

Language

Library

Love Is

Lying

Marriage

Mean

Men

Milk

Mind

Nations

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Quotes by John Ciardi

John Ciardi

A dollar saved is a quarter earned.

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.

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

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

At the next vacancy for God, if I am elected, I shall forgive last the delicately wounded who, having been slugged no harder than anyone else, never got up again, neither to fight back, nor to finger their jaws in painful admiration.

Boys are the cash of war.

Conviction is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only by ignoring the radical describers of his environment, or by hating them, as convinced men have hated, say, Darwin and Freud, as agents of some devil.

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

If a man means his writing seriously, he must mean to write well. But how can he write well until he learns to see what he has written badly. His progress toward good writing and his recognition of bad writing are bound to unfold at something like the same rate.

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