Walter Bargen quotes

“If you wait, you grow old, nothing more.”
-- Walter Bargen

Source : Walter Bargen (2009). “Days Like this are Necessary: New and Selected Poems”, Bkmk Pr/Umkc

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“Each delicately and fiercely imaged poem is a tribute to perseverence and survival and a lesson for us all.”
-- Walter Bargen

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“Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative.”

Source : Abba Eban (1969). “My people: the story of the Jews”, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson

“I have liked many but loved very few. Yet no-one has been as sweet as you. I'd stand and wait in the world's longest queue. Just for the pleasure of a moment with you.”

“Everything comes to the man who won't wait.”

Source : Ada Leverson (2012). “Tenterhooks”, p.58, tredition

“Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!”

“One grows out of pity when it's useless.”

“The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.”

“Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.”

“Empathy grows as we learn.”

“People grow up by living.”

“You know how you either grow up in a Michael Jackson house or a Prince house? For me it was Michael Jackson. I could never decide whether I wanted to be Michael Jackson or marry him.”