All John Ciardi Quotes
Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.
John Ciardi
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Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
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What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.
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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.
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The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow.
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A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
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