Quotes About Growth

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.

You are never too old to become younger!

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

Let our scars fall in love.

There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

She taught me everything I knew about crawfish and kissing and pink wine and poetry. She made me different.

When you're a student of poetry, you're lucky if you don't realize how untalented you are until you get a little better. Otherwise, you would just stop.

In summer the empire of insects spreads.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Failure: the renewable resource.

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

I learned a world from each / one whom I loved

Nothing reminds us of an awakening more than rain.

He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life.

The way to become a poet is to read poetry and to imitate what you read and to read passionately and widely and in as involved a way as you can.

I know many lives worth living.

Men take care of your responsibilities with maturity.

I don't want to go on being a root in the dark, vacillating, stretched out, shivering with sleep, downward, in the soaked guts of the earth, absorbing and thinking, eating each day.