Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

With our lives and food chain set up to make us fat - I mean, you can't drive down any highway in America and find a grapefruit - a guy needs to be smarter and more determined to get lean. ”

It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost - not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions. ”

My life has ever been devoted to her service from my youth up, though never before in a cause like this - a cause for which I would most cheerfully risk and lay down my life. ”

Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ. ”

The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body. ”

Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your life, your present world or your possibilities for the future. ”

Poetry carries the imagery which is large enough for the kind of life we want for ourselves. ”

Sometimes you have to make a complete disaster of your life in such an epic way that it will be absolutely clear to you what you've been doing. ”

A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain. ”

My early life was a bit of a mess but it was no one's fault. It was just how it was. ”