Expectations Poems Quotes & Sayings

I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Today, I went on to my neighbor's house and told them, "You will listen to great music whether you like it or not. — Bhavik Sarkhedi

You have never fought for anything in your life. You write poems and articles about slavery and the murder of Indians and hope something will change. You fight what does not come near your door, professors. You've inherited everything in your lives and do not know what it is to cry for your bread! Well, with what other expectations did I come to this country? What should I complain of? The greatest bard had no home but exile. One day to come, perhaps, I shall walk on my own shores again, one more with true friends, before I leave this earth. — Matthew Pearl

I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person. — Kangana Ranaut

I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out. — Rachel Bloom

Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is just as good now, and just as true, as when it was first written. — Charles Warren Stoddard

Time has its own dimensions, and neither the sun nor the clock can encompass them all. — Hal Borland

Mom said to me, "You can't control how things turn out. It's what's in your heart that matters most. — Curtis Moser

Alex shot her a look that was colder than liquid nitrogen. — Sarah Alderson

Being a member of a minority race doesn't mean being a minority achiever. — Ben Carson

Everybody's just got their nose in their own soup. They say they care, but they don't put poems in books for me to read ... They talk to me about 'adjusting my expectations for the world.' And how I need to be realistic and just accept that this is how things work and that life is unfair ... I know, I know, I know. — Kristopher Jansma

John and I noticed that whenever we talked about our children Wystan reached for his cats. — Thekla Clark

Now, you might think that because there are more poets than ever, there might be more opportunities for poets than ever. And you'd be correct. If your fondest wish is to become the next totally obscure minor poet on the block, well, you're probably already successful at that. This literary landscape has proven itself infinitely capable of absorbing countless interchangeable artists, all doing roughly the same thing in relative anonymity: just happily plucking away until death at the grindstone, making no great cultural headway, bouncing poems off their friends and an audience of about 40 people. A totally fine little life for an artist, to be sure. No grand expectations from the world to sit up and listen. One can live out one's days quite satisfied to create something enjoyed by a genial cult. But that's not why any of us are here tonight. We're here to conquer American Poetry and suck it dry of all glory and juice. — Jim Behrle