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

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. – John Ciardi

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Change
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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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Other Quotes from
City Life, Cities
category

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast. – Italian Proverb

I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage. – Alan Brien

And that sweet city with her dreaming spires,
She needs not June for beautys heightening… – Matthew Arnold

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins. – Italo Calvino

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We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality. – Sigmund Freud

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I dont practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation. – Simon Callow

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