John Ciardi

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

— John Ciardi

#constitution #damn #damn fool #every #fool

A dollar saved is a quarter earned. ↗

— John Ciardi

#earned #quarter #saved

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

— John Ciardi

#changing #neighborhood #residential #worse

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

— John Ciardi

#every #fun #game #hard #invented

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

— John Ciardi

#ancestors #gone #left #money #over

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

— John Ciardi

#happen #happened #intelligence #recognizes #will

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. ↗

— John Ciardi

#convictions #could #courage #easy #enough

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

— John Ciardi

#entrance #escape #into #should #world

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. ↗

— John Ciardi

#any #begins #concern #concerns #down

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

— John Ciardi

#milk #sponge #sprinkled #sugar #warm