81 Quotes by John Ciardi

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

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.

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

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

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

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

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

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

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.