Men Quotes by John Ciardi

John Ciardi

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

John Ciardi

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

John Ciardi

Men marry what they need. I marry you.

Marriage

Men

Needs

John Ciardi

Nothing goes further toward a man’s liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.

Character

Men

Survival

Follow The Behaviour University in order to get the greatest quotes from the greatest people of all time so that you can tap into your own greatness.

Esther Williams

Bess Myerson

Gabrielle

Nasim Pedrad

Henry Clarke Wright

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

Needs

Neighborhood

Opinion

Poetry

Race

Reading

Sarcastic

Savages

Simple

Sleep

Sobriety

Sponges

Spontaneous

Sugar

Survival

Together

Towns

Two

War

Way

World

Writing

Men Quotes by John Ciardi

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.

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.

Men marry what they need. I marry you.

Nothing goes further toward a man’s liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.

Get Social with TBU

Men Quotes by

Esther Williams

Bess Myerson

Gabrielle

Nasim Pedrad

Henry Clarke Wright

Topics by John Ciardi

Menu

Menu