I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.
Have you ever observed somebody go through a religious conversion? The person seems perfectly reasonable to you and has no particular concern for religion. Then a parent, friend or child dies or he gets a serious illness or is involved in a car accident. In just a matter of weeks, he seeks out and finds the answers to all of life's questions and starts studying and spouting all sorts of doctrine. During such a window of vulnerability, religion can commandeer a person's brain.
At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The baby is next endowed with an urge, or need, to face the out world and to absorb it. We might say that he is born with 'the psychology of world conquest. ' By absorbing what he finds about him, he forms his own personality.
When the soldier returns from the wars, even though he has white hair, he very soon finds a young wife. But a woman has only one summer; if she does not make hay while the sun shines, no one will afterwards have anything to say to her, and she spends her days consulting oracles that never send her a husband.
In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.
The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.
As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.
In the mind engaged in struggling with hardship, one always finds something delightful. The sorrow of disappointment arises in the complacency of satisfaction.
Libraries: Here is where people, one frequently finds, lower their voices, and raise their minds.
A man with his heart in his profession imagines and finds resources where the worthless and lazy despair.
There's a fine line between imagination and reality. An inventor dreams something up, and pretty soon, it's there on the table before him. A science-fiction writer envisions another world, and then some space probe finds it. If you believe in something strongly enough, I think you can make it happen.
The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.
It's not supposed to be easy. Anyone who finds it easy is stupid.
For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart
In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by.
A journey may be long or short, but it must start at the very spot one finds oneself.
Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor.
My character [in This Is Us], Randall, was adopted. He'd never met either of his biological parents so he seeks out and finds his biological father after 36 years. So that's where we find my character at the beginning of the show.