Quotes About Time

A moment is not complete until you realise it is fleeting...

Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.

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

The only problem with Haiku is that you just get started and then

You are never too old to become younger!

The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.

I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave.

Cold hearts don't bleed. Still they pray for eternity, never seeing tomorrow.

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

Poetry is the plough that turns up time in such a way that the abyssal strata of time, its black earth, appear on the surface.

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

We live in an old chaos of the sun.

I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov'd?

The journey back is always longer than the forward run.

Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

ZENITH / NOON beats out / on its solar anvil / the rays of light

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.

My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.

I will love you forever" swears the poet. I find this easy to swear too. "I will love you at 4:15 pm next Tuesday" - Is that still as easy?

Who are you, a hundred years from today, reading my poetry with curiosity?

Only times and places, only names and ghosts.

And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist.