Quotes About Fulfillment

Don't sit around waiting for it to happen. Get out there and make it happen!

If you are brave enough to empty yourself, then life will fill you again and again.

Drink from the cup of life, you will be fulfilled.Yet...drink from the milk container in the fridge, and your wife will make you wish that you had drunk from the cup of life.

In the end it was worth it.

For the writer, the process of writing a novel is like getting an advanced copy of a book you'd really like to read.

don't want to regret than don't forget to enjoy

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.

I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.

Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.

I still believe in this country, that it can fulfill the destiny Blake and Whitman envisioned. I still believe in American poetry.

Whatever your life's pursuit -- art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be -- you can be as spiritual as clergy, always living a life of praise.

Where music thundered let the mind be still, Where the will triumphed let there be no will, What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill.

It's important to have your private enjoyments because sometimes that's all we have.

I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete, The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.

Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.

I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams

A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures.

There is no happiness like mine.I have been eating poetry.