Life & Wisdom Quote by Judith Wright

Hunger is an arresting choice here because it smuggles ambition into the body. Wright frames desire for "More" as both natural and dangerous: a drive that can nourish a life, or, left unattended, curdle into scarcity. The repetition of "More" works like a drumbeat, turning an abstract concept into a presence you can almost feel pressing on the sentence. It is insistently capitalized, not quite a god and not quite a commodity, which is the point: Wright treats expansion of self and world as a spiritual discipline without borrowing religious language.

The subtext is a warning against drift. "Consciously pursue" suggests that the default setting of modern life is passivity disguised as busyness - you can be moving constantly and still be choosing nothing. In that vacuum, Wright argues, we "create less for ourselves": not merely receive less, but manufacture our own diminishment through timid goals, narrowed attention, and the quiet acceptance of what is handed to us. The second clause sharpens the threat. Once you practice smallness, your capacity for largeness atrophies; "More" becomes harder to recognize, let alone inhabit.

Context matters because Wright, an Australian poet deeply attuned to landscape and ecology, lived through war, rapid modernization, and environmental loss. Read against that backdrop, "More" is not just personal self-actualization. It hints at a collective urgency: if we don't intentionally reach for richer forms of meaning, beauty, and responsibility, we will settle for the thin, convenient versions - and eventually forget there were alternatives.