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Quotes About Journey

Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At this vessel's prow I stand, which bears me Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea.
~ Matthew Arnold
I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's core.
~ W.B. Yeats
Through everything I have passed but nowhere I have been.
~ Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape
Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions.
~ Carl Sandburg
think what you hope for is that at different times of your life you're able to write the poetry that reflects the moment that you're in on your own journey.
~ Edward Hirsch
For me the road became a zone, in places like Saint Marks poetry Project where I worked for 12 years.
~ Anne Waldman
We are all just humans trying to survive in this crazy world, in the spaces between birth and death.
~ Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy
The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through …
~ John Ashbery
So we found the end of our journey.So we stood, alive in the river of light, Among the creatures of light, creatures of light.
~ Ted Hughes, River
If I stay close to the sea, I will go on well.
~ Charlotte Eriksson
My life was a blank paper, until you came to rhyme with words & make it a poetry book. ? ?
~ Akansh Malik
From key signature to coda, from downbeat to the sound of life's final fermata, our pasts set the tone for all that was, that is, and that ever would be.
~ Jamie A. Hughes
you cross the field in the snow leaving tracks in perfect whiteness ...disturbing my placid universe...marking the landscape within me ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
30 cents, two transfers, loveThinking hard about you I got on the bus and paid 30 cents car fare and asked the driver for two transfers before discovering that I was alone.
~ Richard Brautigan
No reprimand in the mirrorSlow walk to LiberiaSlow dance across the SaharaSlow unraveling of gray matter
~ Mellon Black, 23 Locked Doors
Swift waters parted by the jagged rocks are joined at river's end. / ????? ?????? ??? ?????? ???????
~ Emperor Sutoku
Eyes closed on an open soul...the world starts from within its core towards its final frontier: the end surface.
~ Soar
When you are lost in the right way, you don't go back to being found in the wrong way.
~ Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy
You were, arecactus tourism. meeting you: granularfractals borrowed from oceans.
~ Virginia Petrucci
Push off, and sitting well in order smite the sounding furrows
~ Ulysses Tennyson
I ain't rich, but Lord I'm free. Amarillo by morning, Amarillo is where I'll be.
~ George Strait
Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.
~ Joyce Cary
It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.
~ Phil Ochs
People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.
~ Clay Pell