Quote by John Ciardi
A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the wors

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

Other quotes by John Ciardi

You dont have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. – John Ciardi

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Poetry
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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

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Trust
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City Life, Cities
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In the small town each citizen had done something in his own way to build the community. The town booster had a vision of the future which he tried to fulfill. The suburb dweller by contrast started with the future – Daniel J. Boorstin

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound. – Jane Austen

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. About Paris – Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

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Age for me is just a number. – Haile Gebrselassie

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Age

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness. – Clara Barton

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Happiness

When I turned 18, my mom, my nana and I all went and had tattoos of our favorite Bible verses put on the inside of our wrists. Mine is 1st Timothy, 4:12. – Jordin Sparks

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mom

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built. – William Masters

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Science