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The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
— 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
The day will happenwhether or not you get up — 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
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
You have to fall in love with hanging around words.
— John Ciardi
Men marry what they need. I marry you.
— John Ciardi
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
— 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
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
