Mature Insight Quotes

Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new.

Youth has its romance, and maturity its wisdom, as morning and spring have their freshness, noon and summer their power, night and winter their repose. Each attribute is good in its own season.

As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

The older you get, the more you realize you cannot win on the Internet.

The great thing about living until you get a bit older if you are a writer, and especially a poet, is that you have more life to reflect on. And I think that if I am better now - and I think that I am probably better than I was - is because that I simply have more to think about, more to get under control, more to understand.

As we mature through the years, we access more deeply information we had only abstractly understood before.

One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.

Scholars of the Hebrew bible define something they call wisdom literature and I would say clearly the poetry of wisdom is something that comes with age or that might come with age which has to do with reflecting on experience.

I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

An adult has the opportunity to enjoy the wisdom gleaned from previous decades of living and experience.