Quotes by : John Ciardi

The day will happenwhether or not you get up

He had his choice, and he liked the worst.

You have to fall in love with hanging around words.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better....

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

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged,....

(Conviction) is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve....

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

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