Ciardi, John Anthony

US poet

• "Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!"
• "Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor."
• "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 university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students."
• "It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young men of this mealy generation the courage of their confusion."