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Letter "J" » John Ciardi Quotes
«Poetry lies its way to the truth.»
«A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.»
Author: John Ciardi
| About:
University
| Keywords:
Colleges and universities, college student, faculty, students, The Faculty, university
«But when the pen is in his hand he has to write by itch and twitch, though certainly his itch and twitch are intimately conditioned by all his past itching and twitching, and by all his past theorizing about them.»
Author: John Ciardi
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
conditioned, itch, itching, theorize, theorizing, twitch, twitches, twitching
«Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.»
Author: John Ciardi
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
Girls, looking at, modern, moderns, modern art, painters, persuade, persuades
«You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone»
«Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope»
«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.»
Author: John Ciardi
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
aged, dependence, excitement, excitements, habituation, label, middle-aged, mutual, sexual, sexual love, with excitement
«Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.»
«The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it»
«A dollar saved is a quarter earned.»
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