81 Quotes by John Ciardi




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

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

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    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.

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    Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

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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.

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