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

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

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.

I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without.

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

Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.

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

A young mans ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himselfhalf your life goes that way till youre 45 or 50. Then if youre lucky you make terms with life you get released.

If you are an idealist, it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway.

Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They are inexpensive and easy to procure.

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.

We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift and use it for the Glory of God and for the liberation struggle of our people.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory.

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ.

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?

Visions of glory, spare my aching sight.

The actor's life is the road. Always has been, always will be. That is his cross and his glory.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

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

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard experience how to correct his mistakes.

Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging it. They were just a great rock and roll band, one that presents the song ahead of everything else - there's no grand idea or concept behind it.

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.

No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.