Quote Tag

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

I’m not counting any chickens.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

I don’t know anybody’s road who’s been paved perfectly for them, there are no manuals, you don’t know what life has in store for you.

The first step… shall be to lose the way.

Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug’s game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.