25 ordspråk av John Ciardi
John Ciardi
John Ciardi föddes den June 24th 1916 och dog den 30 March 1986 - US writer
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 A dollar saved is a quarter earned. |
| 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. |
| A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse. |
| A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. |
| A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. |
| Bah! You asked for it. This is your life. The price is right enough. You've got no secrets. People are . . . well, never mind. But tell me, boys and girls and Federal gentlemen, has anyone had time to think of Khrushchev lately? |
| But when the pen is in his hand he has to write by itch and twitch, though certainly his itch and twitch are intimately conditioned by all his past itching and twitching, and by all his past theorizing about them. |
| Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it! |
| Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope |
| Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone |
| Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen. |
| 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. |
| It's not a how-to-do-it school but more nearly a confessional in which people who have spent their lives at the writing process itemize their failures while clinging to their hopes. |
| 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. |
| Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. |
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