English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

John Ciardi Quotes

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

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

Matthew Arnold quote: "And each day brings it's pretty dust, Our soon-choked souls to..."
And each day brings it's pretty dust, Our soon-choked souls to fll. And we forget because we must, And not because we will. Matthew Arnold
For me, the best thing about Cyberpunk is that it taught me how to enjoy shopping malls, which used to terrify me. Now I just imagine the whole thing is two miles below the moon’s surface, and that half the people’s right-brains have been eaten by roboticized steel rats. And suddenly it’s interesting again. Rudy Rucker
Franz Kafka quote: "The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support."
The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support. Franz Kafka
Pray a little more, work a little harder, save, wait, be patient and, most of all, live within our means. That's the American way. It's not spending ourselves into prosperity or taxing ourselves into prosperity. Mike Huckabee
Come, drunks and drug-takers; come perverts unnerved! Receive the laurel, given, though late, on merit; to whom and wherever deserved. Parochial punks, trimmers, nice people, joiners true-blue, Get the hell out of the way of the laurel. It is deathless And it isn't for you. Louise Bogan
Bill O'Reilly quote: "Look, I debate for a living so I don't need to learn any..."
Look, I debate for a living so I don't need to learn any lessons from amateurs. Bill O'Reilly
Maya Angelou quote: "The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we..."
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. Maya Angelou
Accounts are not quite settled between us," said she, with a passion that equaled my own. "I can love, and I can hate. You had your choice. You chose to spurn the first; now you must test the other. Arthur Conan Doyle
Wynonna Judd quote: "We are losing our superstars like Johnny and June Carter Cash..."
We are losing our superstars like Johnny and June Carter Cash and that breaks my heart. Wynonna Judd
Walter Rauschenbusch quote: "Christianity is in its nature revolutionary."
Christianity is in its nature revolutionary. Walter Rauschenbusch
But someone sometime let you forget how to choose, and what. Someone let your peoples forget it was the only thing of importance, choosing. . . How to choose any but a child's greedy choices if there is no loving-filled father to guide, inform, teach the person how to choose? How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose? David Foster Wallace
Doug Coupland quote: "I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to..."
I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me. Doug Coupland
But beauty is not the only thing that makes a woman attractive; indeed, great beauty is often somewhat chilling: you admire, but are not moved. W. Somerset Maugham
The jet is a great invention. Besides being a world shrinker, par excellence, it has much of the quality and charm of a roller coaster. And it's big. Once, years ago, on a ten-stop, cross-country air trip, I turned to the man next to me and said, quite genuinely: "What keeps these big goddam things up in the air? Vincent Price
..which should teach you something about this world. That it's a place where whatever you work for and care about is bound to be taken away from you sooner or later, and there isn't a thing you can do about it. Clive Barker