Quotes About Time

Poetry is the expression, in human language restored to its essential rhythm, of the mysterious meaning of the aspects of existence: in this way it confers authenticity on our time on earth and constitutes the only spiritual task there is.

I don't like days that end without answers. I'll just keep my eyes open and we'll see what happens. I look up. One of the streetlights fades, disappearing as quick as it shone, the light sucked out of it. Life can be so hilarious sometimes I don't have time to laugh.

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

The time you spend together doing a thousand inconsequential things is what culminates in a meaningful childhood.

Family time is where it's at. We can give our kids every bit of a designer lifestyle, but most of them are more interested in just being with us.

I sit here locked inside my head Remembering everything you've said The silence get's us no where Get's us no where way too fast

The days draw out, the weather gets warmer, and it's what we call summer, with a bitter laugh when we've said it.

If only, then, I had been more living out of the present--such a beautiful word...present. The sense of it being, now to me, more beautiful than 'to look forward.

Luck's a revolving door, you just need to know when it's your time to walk through.

Die Vergangenheit wächst mit der Gegenwart.

Viele, die ihrer Zeit vorausgeeilt waren, mußten auf sie in sehr unbequemen Unterkünften warten.

I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.

In mapping out the transpersonal realm, I found it useful to think in terms of the following three experiential regions: (1) an expansion or extension of consciousness within the everyday concept of time and space; (2) an expansion or extension of consciousness beyond the everyday concept of time and space; and (3) "psychoid" experiences.

Oh, to be old again," said the young corpse.

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

I am still fascinated by all the different ways [Charles Mingus] and Dannie Richmond came up with to play time. I had never heard before (and have rarely heard since) a bassist and a drummer who could so dramatically affect the direction and intensity of the music.

words so precisely placed that in combination with other words, also precisely placed, they carve out a shape in space and time.

Somewhere in time's own space There must be some sweet pastured place Where creeks sing on and tall trees grow Some paradise where horses go, For by the love that guides my pen I know great horses live again.

Love, too, a leveler, a dying all its own, the parts left behind not to be replaced, a loss ongoing, and every day increased, like rising in the night, at 3:00 am, to watch the snow or the dead leaf fall, the rings around the streetlight in the rain, and then the rain, the red fist in the heart opening and closing almost without me. —Stanley Plumly, from "Variation on a Line from Elizabeth Bishop's 'Five Flights Up'," Poetry(June 2015)

Hearing from you makes me long for simpler times, but perhaps the attraction of the past is that it is over, and we can make of it what we will.

Silver hair and wrinkles are earned.