Quotes by John Ciardi

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

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

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

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

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  There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

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  You do not have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.