Quotes About Change

Nothing is everlasting, everything is transforming like a wave in the ocean.

The moon is the same but the observers are different.

I don't think it's right that I'm part of the problem. I can't be part of the solution if I'm part of the problem

Going mad is the beginning of a process. It is not supposed to be the end result.

If you want to be educated and wise, you must open your heart, expand your mind, be accepting and ready to change.

Thinking differently is the key to improvement.

Love is like a season, it ebbs and it flows, sometimes we're like Summer, Fall and Winter, but it's Spring that I long to know.

Red's had her day. It's time to give pink a go.

Stress is nothing but the fear of change.

My philosophy is my learning process. Until you die, you must evolve and improve.

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will.

But I, from poetry's skies, plunge into communism, because without it I feel no love.

If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.

She taught me everything I knew about crawfish and kissing and pink wine and poetry. She made me different.

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic force, it sets in motion...elements in the reader that would otherwise remain stagnant.

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

In life, the number of beginnings is exactly equal to the number of endings ... In poetry, the number of beginnings so far exceeds the number of endings that we cannot even conceive of it.

I always thought that writing poetry was in itself a political act.

What is poetry which does not save nations or people?

Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?