Quotes About Experience

Learn from the past but don't forget to live for the present moment. This moment is your life.

Strongest pain often gives the deepest pleasure.

If we forget the past, individually or as a culture, we lose knowledge that has already been gained, and we lose valuable tools by which our knowledge may grow.

I enjoy writing historical fiction because it allows me to live more lives than just this one.

If you think that your hardest problem is what color shoes to wear.You should get out more!

Discover the World give us more Education to Ourselves.

Life is a book. Read it.

Pickpocket is a sink-or-swim profession, not something that can be taught in the comfort of your living room.

An educated person would know that holding a degree will not make you entitled to a better job nor a better salary than someone who has no degree.

Philosophy is a good horse in the stable but an errant jade on a journey.

In philosophy it is not the attainment of the goal that matters it is the things that are met with by the way.

Bringing you closer to the fragile edge of living is the job of a writer.

The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.

Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul, you haven't experienced poetry.

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.

Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.

It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.