“How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.”
Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989) American poet, novelist, and literary critic
"Poetry Is a Kind of Unconscious Autobiography" in The New York Times (12 May 1985)
“Distrust grows out of lies. Wrong-doing grows out of distrust. Tragedy grows out of wrong-doing.”
— Susan Howatch, book The Wheel of Fortune
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.
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“Wherever life can grow, it will.
It will sprout out,
and do the best it can.”
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000) American writer
"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.”
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël book Corinne
Bk. 6, ch. 3
Corinne (1807)
“O do not love too long,
Or you will grow out of fashion
Like an old song.”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
O Do Not Love Too Long http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1549/ <br class="br">In The Seven Woods (1904) <br class="br">Context: Sweetheart, do not love too long:<br>I loved long and long,<br>And grew to be out of fashion<br>Like an old song.<br>All through the years of our youth<br>Neither could have known<br>Their own thought from the other's<br>We were so much at one.<br>But O, in a minute she changed--<br>O do not love too long,<br>Or you will grow out of fashion<br>Like an old song.
“A weed is just a flower growing in the wrong place”
Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist
Source: Perfect
Hayley Williams (1988) American singer-songwriter and musician
Hayley's "About Me" Profile from the Official Paramore's Web Site http://www.paramore.net/member/i/19150
Václav Havel (1936–2011) playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of the Czech Republic
The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World (1994)
Cheryl Strayed book Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
