
“How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.”
"Poetry Is a Kind of Unconscious Autobiography" in The New York Times (12 May 1985)
The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 3: John
Context: Distrust grows out of lies. Wrong-doing grows out of distrust. Tragedy grows out of wrong-doing. But out of honesty grows love and love's so powerful, it'll be like a suit of armour, protecting Robert, protecting you.
“How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.”
"Poetry Is a Kind of Unconscious Autobiography" in The New York Times (12 May 1985)
“Wherever life can grow, it will.
It will sprout out,
and do the best it can.”
"Song of Winnie"
Winnie (1988)
Context: My Poem is life, and not finished.
It shall never be finished.
My Poem is life, and can grow.
Wherever life can grow, it will.
It will sprout out,
and do the best it can.
I give you what I have.
You don’t get all your questions answered in this world.
How many answers shall be found
in the developing world of my Poem?
I don’t know. Nevertheless I put my Poem,
which is my life, into your hands, where it will do the best it can.
“When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.”
Bk. 6, ch. 3
Corinne (1807)
“O do not love too long,
Or you will grow out of fashion
Like an old song.”
O Do Not Love Too Long http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1549/
In The Seven Woods (1904)
Context: Sweetheart, do not love too long:
I loved long and long,
And grew to be out of fashion
Like an old song.
All through the years of our youth
Neither could have known
Their own thought from the other's
We were so much at one.
But O, in a minute she changed--
O do not love too long,
Or you will grow out of fashion
Like an old song.
“A weed is just a flower growing in the wrong place”
Source: Perfect
Hayley's "About Me" Profile from the Official Paramore's Web Site http://www.paramore.net/member/i/19150
The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World (1994)