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

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...

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 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...

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'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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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.

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...

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 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...

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...

Trust me, no tortures which the poets feign, can match the fierce, the unutterable pain,...

Trust me, no tortures which the poets feign, can match the fierce, the unutterable pain,...

Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.

Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as...

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as...

You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket

You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as...

Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as...