Quotes About Purpose

For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.

Making of poetry, music, dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose for art quite explicit.

I didn't choose poetry: poetry chose me.

What will you do now with the gift of your left life?

Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.

I am not interested in poetry for poetry's sake.

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.

I know many lives worth living.

Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At this vessel's prow I stand, which bears me Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea.

I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

Life is like a poetry, without meaning or purpose - it's useless.

Death defines life. I'd rather stay undefined.

With me poetry has not been a purpose but a passion.

Poetry is not a profession it's a destiny.

Rest of my life is more important to me than politics

I think we should all focus on who we are, what we want to do, and do it. That is my way. I don't know why anyone would want to do that politics stuff.

Justice is the constant and eternal purpose that renders to each his due.

The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been , that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.

The first thing to say about politics is that politics is not the first thing.

My walk had purpose, my steps were quick and light, and I held firmly to what I felt was right.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.

It is beter to live 50 years as a tiger rather than live 100 years as a chicken

There is no substitute for a clear vision and a decisive direction.