Quotes About Possibility

This is one underlying reason why poetry is so often met with contempt rather than mere indifference and why it is periodically denounced as opposed to simply dismissed: Most of us carry at least a weak sense of a correlation between poetry and human possibility that cannot be realized by poems. The poet, by his very claim to be a maker of poems, is therefore both an embarrassment and accusation.

Great poets confront the limits of actual poems, tactically defeat or at least suspend that actuality, sometimes quit writing altogether, becoming celebrated for their silence; truly horrible poets unwittingly provide a glimmer of virtual possibility via the extremity of their failure; avant-garde poets hate poems for remaining poems instead of becoming bombs; and nostalgists hate poems for failing to do what they wrongly, vaguely claim poetry once did.

So long as a canvas is empty its potential is infinite… The empty canvas can become a gateway into the landscape of nightmares or a vision of sensual bliss.

But that outcome looked more and more unlikely.

do not persuade me to drop this option from the playbook altogether,

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot.

Maybe is not a theory, you know, it is merely maybe.

Opportunity is the great bawd.

Great hopes make everything great possible.

Where the presence of truth should be possible, it can be possible solely under the condition of the recognition of myth--that is, the recognition of its crushing indifference to truth.

In the measurement world, you set a goal and strive for it. In the universe of possibility, you set the context and let life unfold.

The practice of giving an A transports your relationships from the world of measurement into the universe of possibility... This A is not an expectation to live up to, but a possibility to live into.

I wouldn't be here if it weren't for 'Show Boat.' The kind of theater I chose to be involved in is completely a direct reflection of what 'Show Boat' made possible.

Without the reform of the justice system, there is no possibility of building a just state.

I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

If something comes that it is so extreme that you have difficulty thinking of it as a good thing, don't think of it as a good thing and kid yourself. To the extent that you can, don't label it a bad thing. Refusing to label something a bad thing opens you up to possibilities you would not have even considered otherwise.

We believe that anything and everything is possible, regardless if it's a domestic or international project.

I regret what happened. I saw no other possibility to achieve my goal. It was not hooliganism.

Chris Cooper once told me to never have any regrets. After Chris said that to me, I walk into every scene thinking, 'exhaust every possibility.' Once you get to a certain place, it's like you just deliver everything you've got. Don't have any regrets. It pops up in my mind over and over and over again.

There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.

At 23, you can completely, literally reinvent yourself if you want to.

Sometimes very small investments can release enormous, infinite potential that exists in all of us.

A lot of times we see choices in front of us, and we limit ourselves by what we see. God wants us to see His way of doing things. And His way is always greater than our ways.