Quotes About Renewal

Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.

If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.

Let Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east.

Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.

Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

Failure: the renewable resource.

In perhaps 50 years, 60 years, we can finish completely this civilization, and offer to our children the possibility to invent a new story, a new poetry, a new romanticism.

Nothing reminds us of an awakening more than rain.

I got saved by poetry. And I got saved by the beauty of the world.

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

I like the one about the little soulworms that fly out of the nest for the resurrection.

Poems are my link with the times, with the new life of my people.

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

Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast.

Maybe I should just lie quietly inside you while our old selves slip in and out of the back rooms of the soul.

I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.

I believe the people should have the opportunity to have a greater influence on politics with their ideas. We need a new impulse for renewal.

I want to show you an optimistic sign that things are beginning to turn around.

It's nice to have four years between elections. It takes people that long to regain their faith.

Every moment is a new beginning.

Every sunset is an opportunity to reset.

Today is a new day. Even if you were wrong yesterday, you can get it right today.

It's never too late-in fiction or in life-to revise.