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The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself. — John Ciardi

Let our love be like an arch- two weaknesses leaning together to form one strength. — John Ciardi

Boys are the cash of war. — John Ciardi

Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity. — John Ciardi

Spontaneous is what you get after the seventeenth draft. — John Ciardi

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character. — 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

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

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse. — John Ciardi

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen. — John Ciardi

A man is what he does with his attention and mine is not for sale. — John Ciardi

The day will happen
whether or not you get up — John Ciardi

Who could believe an ant in theory? A giraffe in blueprint? Ten thousand doctors of what's possible Could reason half the jungle out of being. — John Ciardi

You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone — John Ciardi

Boys are the cash of war. Whoever said: we're not free spenders- doesn't know our like. — John Ciardi

Poetry is man's best means of perceiving most profoundly the action and the consequence of his own emotions. — John Ciardi

A dollar saved is a quarter earned. — John Ciardi

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

Every word has a history. Every word has an image locked into its roots. — John Ciardi

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

The public library is the most dangerous place in town — John Ciardi

Honesty: The ability to resist small temptations. — John Ciardi

The success of the poem is determined not by how much the poet felt in writing it, but by how much the reader feels in reading it. — John Ciardi

You have to fall in love with hanging around words. — John Ciardi

Men marry what they need. I marry you. — John Ciardi

Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar. — John Ciardi

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

You don't have to suffer to be a poet — John Ciardi

The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow. — John Ciardi

Fermentation and civilization are inseparable. — John Ciardi

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation. — John Ciardi

Poetry lies its way to the truth. — John Ciardi

The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it. — John Ciardi

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. — John Ciardi

Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it! — John Ciardi

Hell is the denial of the ordinary... — John Ciardi

A good question is never answered. — John Ciardi

He had his choice, and he liked the worst. — John Ciardi

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone. — John Ciardi

Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor. — John Ciardi