Poetry Quote by Wallace Stegner — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks.”

“Wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.”

“I can't see that Danish episode as an adventure, or a crisis survived, or a serious quest for anything definable. It was just another happening like today's luncheon, something I got into and got out of. And it reminds me too much of how little life changes: how, without dramatic events or high resolves, without tragedy, without even pathos, a reasonably endowed, reasonably well-intentioned man can walk through the world's great kitchen from end to end and arrive at the back door hungry.”

“Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to”

“Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.”

“The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.”

“The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.”

“where do i find self love?'”

“GATHERING LEAVES”

“I’m kissing you now — across”

“How they had dreamed together, he and she... how they had planned, and laughed, and loved. They had lived for a while in the very heart of poetry.”

“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of”