Quotes About Youth

Killing a pig for a good old fry-up is one thing. But there's no excuse for being cruel, even if you're a bored teenage kid.

There's one thing you can start doing right now that will change how you communicate with any young human: Remember what it's like to be one.

To say "He was a young fool, and now he's an old fool" is to make a distinction without a difference.

Young men learn the lesson of love, after bursting out in anger.

The fragile nature of youth is at last hardened by the agony of experience.

Education is the future of a nation

By educating the young, we are building a liberating potential force indirectly.

You sound like a college freshman taking his first philosophy class way too seriously, but that's good.

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.

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.

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

You are never too old to become younger!

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

That's all you really hope for from a book – that it's going to resonate with young people and empower them in some way. I believe poetry can get kids reading.

The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.

It was at that age that poetry came in search of me.

The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.

In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.

In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.

I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy.

Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.

He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life.