Quotes About Evolution

Nothing is everlasting, everything is transforming like a wave in the ocean.

When your knowlege increases over time, yearn to learn to dance in your mind.

You can't solve a problem: but problems will dissolve in you.

Writing is a process of creating yourself again and again for an ever-searching mind.

What's good about growth? Why is it intrinsically good?

Curiosity is the driving force that propels humanity forward.

Going mad is the beginning of a process. It is not supposed to be the end result.

Thinking differently is the key to improvement.

Never give up but never forget to grow up.

Learning is a life time process, but there comes a time when you have to stop adding and start updating.

Red's had her day. It's time to give pink a go.

Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history.

Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry.

Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets.

Most people are trying to go digital, and trying to do different things with poetry. McSweeney's is going in the opposite direction - going more classic, and retro, which is all coming back.

Failure: the renewable resource.

I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.

In perhaps 50 years, 60 years, we can finish completely this civilization, and offer to our children the possibility to invent a new story, a new poetry, a new romanticism.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.

Poetry today is easier to write but harder to remember.

Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals.

I was just reading some poetry, and it talked about how things start as one thing and change into another, and I just thought, what a great concept for a song.