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Quotes About Change

History is the new poetry.
~ Thomas Carlyle
My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry, no longer'; 'I'm sorry, not yet.
~ W. H. Auden
I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.
~ Norman MacCaig
Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.
~ Robert Frost
The red washingdown the bathtubcan't change the color of the seaat all.
~ Derrick Brown
The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through …
~ John Ashbery
I fell out of love with him and he thought I fell in love with someone else, I did. I fell in love with me.
~ Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy
PartingOne is strong, a child now grownThe other weak, a parent aged-The strong once feebleThe weak once mighty-Time, the infinityhas marked them...
~ Muse, Enigmatic Evolution
When you become a raindrop in your mind Thunder is the closest friend you may find Wind lashed trees, dark clouds, lightning or the dust Everything you will bear once you adjust
~ Munia Khan
You must remain. I must depart.Two autumns falling in the heart.
~ Buson
The color of the flower has faded, while I lost myself in idle thought in this long rain / ???? ??????? ????? ??????? ???????
~ Ono no Komachi
With people you can never tell, Will they have changed when next we meet? But here in my dear old home at least, The plums still smell as sweet. / ???? ????? ????? ???? ???????
~ Fujiwara no Okikaze
You crawled inside myribs to die. Giant becomes squirrelbecomes a dirt-wet girlfeverishly alive.
~ Virginia Petrucci
Unlike the bough that shook off her dead leaves violentlylike a wet terrier, unlike the beating of the butterfly, her wings, against the cocoon, some dreams never made a move.
~ V.S. Atbay
The heart doth recognise thee, Alone, alone! The heart doth smell thee sweet, Doth view thee fair, doth judge thee most complete, —-Though seeing now those changes that disguise thee.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
~ Mark Twain
Don't be 'practical' in politics. To be practical in that sense means that you have schooled yourself to think along the lines, and in the grooves that those who rob you would desire you to think.
~ James Connolly
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
~ John F. Kennedy
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
~ Jerry Garcia
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
~ Barack Obama
Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.
~ James Madison
At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
~ Shirley Chisholm
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
~ Mark Twain
To change masters is not to be free.
~ Jose Marti