The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Ciardi, Classroom, Entrances, 0 - John Ciardi Poet · USA
You don’t have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Ciardi, Children, Sarcastic, 0 - John Ciardi Poet · USA
+ Patience is the art of caring slowly. Feraz Zeid, June 25, 2023December 25, 2024, John Ciardi, Art, Care, Patience, 0 - John Ciardi Poet · USA
+ Fermentation and civilization are inseparable. Feraz Zeid, July 1, 2023December 25, 2024, John Ciardi, Civilization, Fermentation, Inseparable, 0 - John Ciardi Poet · USA
The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn’t deserve it, give it to him anyhow. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Ciardi, Honest, Opinion, 0 - John Ciardi Poet · USA
+ Honesty: The ability to resist small temptations. Feraz Zeid, June 30, 2023December 25, 2024, John Ciardi, Integrity, Morality, Self-control, 0 - John Ciardi Poet · USA
+ The day will happen whether or not you get up. Feraz Zeid, July 4, 2023December 25, 2024, John Ciardi, Inevitability, Motivation, Responsibility, 0 - John Ciardi Poet · USA
Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Ciardi, Genius, Happened, 0 - John Ciardi Poet · USA
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The court is like a palace of marble; it’s composed of people very hard and very polished. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you’ve got it made. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists. - Jean Rostand Biologist · France
Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
