Growth is expected to stagnate next year.
He didn't want to stagnate in his dull office job until he retired.
Because certain people believe they are superior to others and it often leads to death. There have been no solutions that have worked so far. Hope this helps!
The poetic techniques that are illustrated in the opening lines of this poem are personification and enjambment.
Personification is when inanimate objects have human qualities, such as <em>and my skin has betrayed me.
</em>Enjambment is when the though found in one line is transferred into the following one, such as in <em>still sucks his thumb/in secret.</em>
This is just a sentence. You could add some meaning behind it, and make it a proverb yourself, but it really is just a sentence. Good luck!