Famous Quotes

"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 on Trust

More quotes about Trust

• "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."

  William Shakespeare on Trust

• "For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth."

  Bo Bennett on Trust

• "The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool."

  Stephen King on Trust

• "Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks."

  Isaac Watts on Trust

• "Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement."

  Golda Meir on Trust

More quotes by John Ciardi

• "Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea."

• "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."

• "Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope."

• "Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope."

• "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."