Quotes About Ambition

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

It does not matter how strong your gravity is, we were always meant to fly.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

You must be a poet, a lady of evil luck desiring to be what you are not, longing to be what you can only visit.

One ambition of poetry, certainly, is to create a reverberant silence in its wake, one that means more or differently than the silence that preceded the poem.

If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield.

What happens to a dream deferred?

If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as the best.

Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won't.

We ran as if to meet the moon.

With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.

I am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not.

Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties.

My verse has brought me no roubles to spare: no craftsmen have made mahogany chairs for my house.

Dream by making and make by dreaming.

The ambitions are wake up, breathe, keep breathing.

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.

I wanted to be a writer for a while. I was an excellent child writer. I won multiple poetry contests. I was published at age three - I think that was more about novelty than my immense talent.

A person born with an instinct for poverty.

Push off, and sitting well in order smite the sounding furrows

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.