A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released.

Quote by Robert Penn Warren

Topics: Evil Quotes, Identity Quotes, Paradox Quotes, Reality Quotes

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in...

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in...

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying...

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying...

Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things...

Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things...

I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald...

I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald...

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.

Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest...

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest...

This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the...

This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the...

A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place...

A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place...

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in...

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in...

I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing...

I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing...

I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald...

I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald...

I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald...

I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald...

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest...

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest...

I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me.

I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me.

Good is not good where better is expected

Good is not good where better is expected

I am open to the guidance of synchronicity, and do not let expectations hinder my...

I am open to the guidance of synchronicity, and do not let expectations hinder my...

No one can look at a pine tree in winter without knowing that spring will...

No one can look at a pine tree in winter without knowing that spring will...

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do...

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do...

Whether we be young or old,Our destiny, our being's heart and home,Is with infinitude, and...

Whether we be young or old,Our destiny, our being's heart and home,Is with infinitude, and...

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

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

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.