Quotes About Youth

I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.

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.

Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.

The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.

High School is the place where poetry goes to die.

Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art.

A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels as miserable as the schoolboy on his way to school. (Act 2, scene 2)

I began writing poetry when I was about 10. Bad poetry, but you start with bad poetry.

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.

I never really liked "cool" books. I plowed through as much Borges and Joyce as possible, read the first half of V. and spent whole Bar Mitzvah checks on Beat poetry.

Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions.

in Italy, almost at every step, history and poetry add to the graces of nature, sweeten the memory of the past, and seem to preserve it in eternal youth.

Part of what I try to do in schools is take poetry off of a pedestal and make it a little more accessible and approachable.

PartingOne is strong, a child now grownThe other weak, a parent aged-The strong once feebleThe weak once mighty-Time, the infinityhas marked them...

No one's serious at seventeen, When lindens line the promenades

Communism has defeated itself everywhere except... in American colleges.

The ones that you're calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while.

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches.

Teenagers have a legitimate voice. We deserve to have a seat at the table and a place in the conversation. We're not exempt from politics and social movements; we're affected by them.

Identity politics are becoming less important since culture's being blended into one big thing - I look at kids' Tumblrs and they're all into the same things.

It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there.

A Christian high school is just like any other high school in the sense of the politics and all of these levels of who's cool and what to wear.

Especially being around young people, ... It helps put things in the proper perspective as you return back to the chaos of politics.