Quotes About Patience

Speed of life is a killer not a healer, so slow down to bloom like a flower.

It is easier to love people than to talk to them.

I hate those Socratic dialogues where everything gets drawn out at the pace of an excessively logical snail.

The shortest path is not always the fastest.

The shortest path is no always the fastest.

Persistence is what keeps you hanging on when hanging on gets tough.

A wise man does not give quick answers to complex questions – he observes, analyzes and contemplates.

The joy of poetry is that it will wait for you. Novels don't wait for you. Characters change. But poetry will wait. I think it's the greatest art.

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

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.

But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.

The journey back is always longer than the forward run.

What happens to a dream deferred?

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.

literature will lose, sunlight will win, don't worry.

What would they say if they knew I sit for two months on six lines of poetry?

Let your poem be kept nine years.

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

No reprimand in the mirrorSlow walk to LiberiaSlow dance across the SaharaSlow unraveling of gray matter

May I live to see the day when I long for the agony I feel now. /????? ??????? ????? ??????? ??????

Some people wait to get flowers while others grow gardens.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.

In times of crisis, it is of utmost importance to keep one's head.