Quotes About Moment

So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

In my eye, men appear at their most powerful when they strain to reach that momentary perfection. Every muscle and sinew is taut, and for them there is nothing else except their bodies and the sensations. Fighting in concert, side by side, it is as if they storm the gates of Heaven demanding entry.

The wandering earth herself may be Only a sudden flaming word, In clanging space a moment heard, Troubling the endless reverie. -from "The Song of the Happy Shepherd

The wandering earth herself may be Only a sudden flaming word, In clanging space a moment heard, Troubling the endless reverie.

Opinion is the enemy of the artist because it arms his uninspired moment against his inspiration.

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and see our illusions die.

In the eyes of others a man is a poet if he has written one good poem. In his own he is only a poet at the moment when he is making his last revision to a new poem. The moment before, he was still only a potential poet; the moment after, he is a man who has ceased to write poetry, perhaps forever.

We would rather die in dread/ Than climb the cross of the moment/ And let our illusions die.

we trust without giving it a thought that we will always see it as we see it once and that what we know is only a moment of what is ours and will stay we believe it as the moment slips away as lengthening shadows merge in the valley and a window kindles there like a first star what we see again comes to us in secret

but happiness has a shape made of air / it was never owned by anyone / it comes when it will in its own time — W.S. Merwin, from "December Morning," Garden Time (Copper Canyon Press, 2016)

How long ago the day is when at last I look at it with the time it has taken to be there still in it

Please one more kiss in the kitchen before we turn the lights off

your note is the time of your radiance arriving once just as the sun does

... a mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'.

Another flashing chance at bliss Another kiss, another kiss

Unfortunately, we don't get a second chance. We've already played them twice.

We all got up to dance. Oh, but we never got the chance!

It was my first big chance, but here I was, sitting back and letting it run through my fingers like so much water.

You cannot take all the chances you get.

You already gave me forever, Aislinn. I'm asking for a chance at right now.

If we miss this chance to make a fresh start, we may look back on this moment from some later vantage point and realize how much that failure cost us all.

The proposal is the only thing that the guy has control over in the entire wedding deal. It is your one chance to make this moment stand out, not only for you, but for her.

Christmas was about understanding that servanthood would win the hearts of men for eternity, where raw power might win them only for a moment, if at all.

For me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another.