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John Ciardi quotes

English Playwright June 24, 1916 – March 30, 1986

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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. John Ciardi
The fact that a good poem will never wholly submit to explanation is not its deficiency but its very life. One lives every day what he cannot define. It is feeling that is first. What one cannot help but sense in good poetry is a sense of the whole language stirring toward richer possibilities than one could have foreseen. John Ciardi
I have one head that wants to be good, And one that wants to be bad. And always, as soon as I get up, One of my heads is sad. John Ciardi
It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions. John Ciardi
I'm smiled out, talked out, quipped out, socialized so far from any being, I need the weight of mortal silences to get realized back into myself. John Ciardi
One night I dreamed I was locked in my Father's watch. With Ptolemy and twenty-one ruby stars. Mounted on spheres and the Primum Mobile. Coiled and gleaming to the end of space. And the notched spheres eating each other's rinds. To the last tooth of time, and the case closed. John Ciardi
John Ciardi quote: "Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned..."
Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope. John Ciardi
John Ciardi quote: "Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls..."
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. John Ciardi
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. John Ciardi
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. John Ciardi
To read a poem with no thought in mind but to paraphrase it into a single, simple and usually high-minded prose statement is the destruction of poetry. John Ciardi
John Ciardi quote: "A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the..."
A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse. John Ciardi
John Ciardi quote: "A good question is never answered."
A good question is never answered. John Ciardi
I once knew a word I forget. That mean "I am sorry we met. And I wish you the same."It sounds like your name. But I haven't remember that yet. John Ciardi
There was a young lady from Gloucester Who complained that her parents both bossed her, So she ran off to Maine. Did her parents complain? Not at all -- they were glad to have lost her. John Ciardi

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