Quotes About Destiny

It was at that age that poetry came in search of me.

I didn't choose poetry: poetry chose me.

This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love.

I still believe in this country, that it can fulfill the destiny Blake and Whitman envisioned. I still believe in American poetry.

Whom the gods do not intend to destroy, they first make mad with poetry.

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.

From key signature to coda, from downbeat to the sound of life's final fermata, our pasts set the tone for all that was, that is, and that ever would be.

They never say this, but it's true, it was raining the first time I saw you.

Oracle of Delphi:In my deep mystery I breatheyour fragrance swirling inyour odourless soulI return your mysteryrevealing your destiny deep inthe seed of your God Self

All paths lead to death, our premature sacrifice for future spawn(from Elixir)

When you are lost in the right way, you don't go back to being found in the wrong way.

Poetry is not a profession it's a destiny.

Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.

All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.

The central issue of poetry as of politics is the destiny of the human personality.

In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.

If you want to be President, decide it at the age of five, and then live accordingly.

We are the dead . Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone.

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a crown.

The greatest discovery in life is to discover that our essential nature does not share the limits nor the destiny of the body and mind.

We write our own destiny ...we become what we do.