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: Ambition Quotes, Youth Quotes

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.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the...

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the...

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must...

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must...

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead....

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead....

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the...

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the...

Theres no committee that says, This is the type of person who can change the...

Theres no committee that says, This is the type of person who can change the...

When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you...

When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you...