Quotes About Aspiration

However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.

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

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.

When you're a student of poetry, you're lucky if you don't realize how untalented you are until you get a little better. Otherwise, you would just stop.

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.

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

It is through beauty, poetry and visionary power that the world will be renewed.

I wish that I could fly into the sky and touch the clouds with my hands.

Dream by making and make by dreaming.

I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.

When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me — yet — the many, many reasons why it could not be written by me.

Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.

The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been , that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.

To get rich is glorious.

They wanted me to be a Washington.

The purification of politics is an iridescent dream.

I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team.

I have an aim - I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in Indian politics; it is something that is inside my heart.

I'm an idealist without illusions.

Everyone's always told about politics you have to be practical, but I actually think that's not true, you actually have to hold to a dream... and desire is part of that dream.