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Quotes About Progress

The shortest path is no always the fastest.
~ Ali AlJa'bari
There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic socialism. There is only one party in Great Britain which can do it - and that is the Labour Party.
~ Aneurin Bevan
Red's had her day. It's time to give pink a go.
~ Anthony T. Hincks
In philosophy it is not the attainment of the goal that matters it is the things that are met with by the way.
~ Havelock Ellis
My philosophy is my learning process. Until you die, you must evolve and improve.
~ Miyavi
The only problem with Haiku is that you just get started and then
~ Roger McGough
But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.
~ Denise Levertov
The progress of any writer is marked by those moments when he manages to outwit his own inner police system.
~ Ted Hughes
Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry.
~ Giacomo Leopardi
The journey back is always longer than the forward run.
~ Rod McKuen
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
~ T.S. Eliot
Failure: the renewable resource.
~ Kay Ryan
Faith marches at the head of the army of progress. -It is found beside the most refined life, the freest government, the profoundest philosophy, the noblest poetry, the purest humanity.
~ Theodore T. Munger
In perhaps 50 years, 60 years, we can finish completely this civilization, and offer to our children the possibility to invent a new story, a new poetry, a new romanticism.
~ Philippe Starck
Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.
~ Herbert Spencer
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
~ Lord Byron
The social revolution...cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped itself of all superstitions concerning the past.
~ Karl Marx
Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!
~ Ray Bradbury
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.
~ Matthew Arnold
I began writing poetry when I was about 10. Bad poetry, but you start with bad poetry.
~ Jonas Mekas
I see the progress typical in some of my poems as starting with something simple and moving into something more demanding. This is certainly the pattern of weird poetry.
~ Billy Collins
A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts.
~ Thomas B. Macaulay
Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover it.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.
~ Robert Frost