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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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

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Courage
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Other Quotes from
City Life, Cities
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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast. – Italian Proverb

Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasnt changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman. – John Berger

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved. – Johnny Carson

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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Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes — every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. – Orison Swett Marden

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The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it. – Mack R. Douglas

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Commitment

Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty. – Richard Cardinal Cushing

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The American people are not just being taxed to death theyre being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the lifes work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government. – J. D. Hayworth

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Death