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

Category:
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

Category:
Trust
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Other Quotes from
City Life, Cities
category

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

The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. Its the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism. – Jean Baudrillard

Ive been in many of them and to some extent I would have to say this: If youve seen one city slum youve seen them all. – Spiro T. Agnew

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

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My parents are very funny when they have to deal with anything racy or off-color. They usually pretend they dont speak English. – Margaret Cho

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