Quotes About Value

You will never truly realize the value of life until you take your very last breath.

Catch the good point and appreciate it.

My research is like my feeling directed towards what is the principal value in the life, the poetry.

Soho has got to be at its centre. It's got such a history for rock, pop, poetry, jazz, writers, all those things, and I think it should be valued as such, and protected as this centre for bohemia.

What did you think, that joy / was some slight thing?

The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.

Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values

I am not interested in poetry for poetry's sake.

We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion of their poetic value than we.

I guess the quality that makes one write poetry keeps one from selling it.

Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond.

It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!

Beauty is a cheap word, but beauty remains priceless.

The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poems, written out on pieces of paper whose value is determined by the worth of the poem itself.

No poem ever bought a hamburger, or not too many.

Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.

Though we do not have many poets, we certainly have more than we deserve, for we deserve none at all. It is ourselves that we are hurting by our stupidity and ignorance of poetry.

No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: he may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

There's no money in poetry but then there's no poetry in money either.

Greatest gift is human life and that we have a duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else's religion, but he'll accept his gold.