John Ciardi Quotes

• El día pasará tanto si te levantas como si no.

  John Ciardi

  Get Up, Happens, Taking Action

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• Men marry what they need. I marry you.

  John Ciardi

  Marriage, Men, Needs

  John Ciardi (1988). “Poems of Love and Marriage”, p.16, University of Arkansas Press

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• The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.

  John Ciardi

  World, Classroom, Entrances

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• There's nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

  John Ciardi

  Drinking, Beer, Sobriety

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• Patience is the art of caring slowly.

  John Ciardi

  Patience, Art, Caring

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• Acostarse temprano y levantarse temprano probablemente indica trabajo no cualificado.

  John Ciardi

  Business, Sleep, Insomnia

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• If a man means his writing seriously, he must mean to write well. But how can he write well until he learns to see what he has written badly. His progress toward good writing and his recognition of bad writing are bound to unfold at something like the same rate.

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  Escritura, Media, Hombres

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

  John Ciardi

  Love Is, Two, Together

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

  John Ciardi

  Genius, Happened, Happens

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• Una buena pregunta nunca tiene respuesta. No se trata de un tornillo que hay que apretar, sino de una semilla que hay que plantar y de la que hay que sacar más semillas con la esperanza de reverdecer el paisaje de la idea.

  John Ciardi

  Change, Ideas, Growth

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• Amor es la palabra utilizada para designar la excitación sexual de los jóvenes, la habituación de los de mediana edad y la dependencia mutua de los mayores.

  John Ciardi

  Love, Relationship, Romance

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

  John Ciardi

  Giving, Opinion, Honest

  John Ciardi (1963). “Dialogue with an audience”

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• A man is what he does with his attention and mine is not for sale.

  John Ciardi

  Men, Doe, Attention

  John Ciardi (1984). “Selected poems”, Univ of Arkansas Pr

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• The constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

  John Ciardi

  Funny, Umpires, America

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• A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.

  John Ciardi

  Inspiración, Educación, Adolescente

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• At the next vacancy for God, if I am elected, I shall forgive last the delicately wounded who, having been slugged no harder than anyone else, never got up again, neither to fight back, nor to finger their jaws in painful admiration.

  John Ciardi

  Fighting, Forgiving, Next

  1959 'In Place of a Curse'.

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• The public library is the most dangerous place in town

  John Ciardi

  Library, Towns, Dangerous

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• No hace falta sufrir para ser poeta; la adolescencia es sufrimiento suficiente para cualquiera.

  John Ciardi

  Inspirational, Sarcastic, Children

  1962 In the Saturday Review, Fall issue.

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• El arte moderno es lo que ocurre cuando los pintores dejan de mirar a las chicas y se persuaden de que tienen una idea mejor.

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  Chica, Arte, Sexo

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• Fermentation and civilization are inseparable.

  John Ciardi

  Beer, Civilization, Alcohol

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• Spontaneous is what you get after the seventeenth draft.

  John Ciardi

  Writing, Spontaneous

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

  John Ciardi

  Fun, Games, Way

  Herbert Barrows, Gordon Norton Ray, John Ciardi (1959). “An Introduction to Literature: How does a poem mean? By J. Ciardi”

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• You have to fall in love with hanging around words.

  John Ciardi

  Falling In Love, Fall, Hanging Around

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• 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

  Simple, Mind, Destruction

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• Poetry lies its way to the truth.

  John Ciardi

  Lying, Poetry, Way

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