Quotes about Change

He wanted to appear suddenly to her in novel and heroic colors. He wanted to stir her from that casualness she showed toward everything except herself.

So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home.

Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

A man does not recover from such jolts-- he becomes a different person and, eventually, the new person finds new things to care about.

Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later.

It was astonishing to think that life had once been the sum of her current love-affairs. It was now the sum of her current problems.

A returned battalion of the National Guard paraded through the streets with open ranks for their dead and then stepped down out of romance forever and sold you things over the counters of local stores.

I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation with every reason to throw my mind and pen in with the radicals.

Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever.

I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't repeat the past.' 'Can't repeat the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!' He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.