Quotes About Time

Let your poem be kept nine years.

Now is History as fast as the mind remembers.

I think it's one of the things that drive lyric poetry, our sense of mortality.

The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.

A certain kind of poetry looks back at experience from an older perspective.

Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever.

Let's be honest - Bill Murray was onto something when he laughed at Andie MacDowell's degree in 19th century French poetry in 'Groundhog Day'.

History is the new poetry.

History after all is the true poetry.

Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things.

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.

No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: he may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

There is no greater sorrowThan to recall a happy timeWhen miserable.

There is a Moment in each Day that Satan cannot find

there are so many dayswhen living stops and pulls up and sitsand waits like a train on the rails.

To live day by dayIs not to live at all.

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

We live longerbut less preciselyand in shorter sentences.

From key signature to coda, from downbeat to the sound of life's final fermata, our pasts set the tone for all that was, that is, and that ever would be.

Soul SisterEvoking all my inner goodnesswith bastions of timeI cradle your heartsisterly into mine...

You must remain. I must depart.Two autumns falling in the heart.

The color of the flower has faded, while I lost myself in idle thought in this long rain / ???? ??????? ????? ??????? ???????

fortune has no era finer than this moment

Some people wait to get flowers while others grow gardens.