Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment. ”

This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrevocably changed my whole life's direction. It immediately elevated me to the status of one of the world's leading anthropologists. ”

As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to go on a number of archeological digs. So I had experience excavating, digging up remains of ancient Indian villages in the Midwest and in the Southwest. ”

One has to take initiative in life to achieve what he or she wants. ”

In my life, I've seen enormous increase in the consumption of poetry. When I was young, there were virtually no poetry readings. ”

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems. ”

I felt the need to be more open and expressive of my feelings, not just about the hills and the countryside, but about the daily life. ”

For better or worse, poetry is my life. ”

I thank Heaven every summer's day of my life, that my lot was humbly cast within the hearing of romping brooks, and beneath the shadow of oaks. ”

There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry. ”