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Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.


Mark Strand

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...poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths...
JOHN GEDDES I remember everything about you," says Peeta, tucking a loose strand of hair behind my ear. "You're ...
SUZANNE COLLINS You're not asking for input. You are asking your admirer's to prove they are paying attention.
CHRIS CLEAVE To be quite honest, I haven't really been paying attention.
STEVE MITCHELL I consider those kind of like misses. I wasn't really paying attention.
CRYSTAL LANGHORNE I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to i...
AZAR NAFISI Alessandra approached the geniuses of the past to give them life with her attention, which was the f...
CARLOS FUENTES My therapy has come from paying attention to my life.
OPRAH WINFREY I think it was a lot worse than it was. He really wasn't paying much attention; I kind of caught him...
CURTIS PAINTER Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.
HENRY FORD One clear night while the others slept, I climbed
the stairs to the roof of the house and under...
MARK STRAND I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I ...
DAN O'BRIEN I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
TASLIMA NASRIN If we can capture the attention of 18- to 22-year-olds and focus it on the classroom and student lif...
ANNE BISHOP Part of living a healthy life is paying attention to friends and family.
JOHN CACIOPPO I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON I was writing poetry, and the Mountain Goats was an outgrowth of that.
JOHN DARNIELLE I just heard about it, ... I wasn't really paying attention. That's cold. Bet they won't do that aga...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Everything I touch makes me a little bit more like the thing I’m touching, so I’d better start p...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH We so wanted to step out to something different that we made it clear to each other there were no bo...
DUSTIN KENSRUE The mistake that was made was not paying enough attention to temporary housing.
ANDREW STEER Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. T...
ROBERT ADAMSON Life has the habit of throwing curve balls to determine if you are paying attention.
STEVEN REDHEAD Everybody asks the same questions, and to tell the truth, nobody remembers. We were kids. People ask...
NORMA NORWOOD I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I...
PAUL AUSTER I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty.
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH She really opened our family's eyes to the situation. It's something people here aren't paying enoug...
CINDY CORRIE I wasn't even paying attention to the score. I just wanted to keep a clean game. I was in a zone.
DEE JOHNSON Actually, I'm not sure we're paying attention to that. I'm just paying attention to doing whatever i...
ERIK COLE The administration is not paying attention to the laws of biodiversity. It's paying far more attenti...
GLEN SPAIN If I keep paying attention, I'm going to be in debt!
ALBERT EINSTEIN Here I was, amid 500 tits, and I was principally paying attention to the social aspects of the event...
LARRY HARVEY I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.
ISAAC ROSENBERG To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
EDGAR ALLAN POE When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
CARL SANDBURG I wasn't paying any attention to them. I just kept my head down.
LONNIE BILLITER JR We now have to prove that the sale of stock is not necessary to promote the interests of the Trust, ...
BARBARA PETITO I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
SUSAN SONTAG I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them
SUSAN SONTAG I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my b...
MAYA ANGELOU They're paying attention to their problems. They are aware that when it comes to store-level executi...
RICHARD HASTINGS Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehe...
SUSAN SONTAG I had always loved writing, but I had never really done any poetry. It seemed at that time to be the...
MANDY SMOKER I wasn't paying attention to who was guarding me. I just tried to do what I can to help us pull thro...
BRANDON POLK It's something I never looked at myself as. If people think that, then great. But I really do feel l...
BILLY CURRINGTON Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?
VIRGINIA WOOLF To be whole simply requires paying attention to oneself.
GARY HOPKINS We mark them with a synthetic DNA strand that can only be seen with a special laser frequency, calib...
JOE ORLANDO The fog was a big factor but people talking on cell phones and going too fast and not paying attenti...
JAMES JOSEPH I think he did expand the number of people who were paying attention, and to pay attention in a diff...
CAROLINE KENNEDY I think it's deeper than architecture. Design has taken on a new importance in life. The general pop...
DAVID MOHNEY I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days.
KAPIL SIBAL We haven't been paying close attention to the polls
JAMES TARANTO The only time elected officials are really dangerous is when they don't think we the citizens are pa...
TIM EYMAN To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
MARY OLIVER I've written poetry since I was a kid. As the years went on, I got into writing stories and scre...
BLAKE JENNER Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?
CARLOS DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE I am very interested in the renovation, and we will continue to support [Friends of the Strand], ......
JOANNE WOODWARD Oh, I love contests ? and I had been paying particular attention to the Oscars this year.
MARTI HOLLAND Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
HAROLD PINTER Slow people are just paying close attention.
NANCY FARMER I do think that Magna Carta and international law are worth paying some attention to.
NOAM CHOMSKY (from chapter 29, "Write In a Book What You See")

"heuristic writing - writing to explore...
EUGENE H. PETERSON There are people in our community writing poetry. This brings it down home. Your friend next door co...
AMANDA CUNNINGHAM I really work on paying attention to the clues my self is giving myself. For instance, I think of my...
GRETCHEN RUBIN People are really paying attention to the comic-book genre, and there's a lot of time and attent...
MAHERSHALA ALI My fouls are just so (cheesy) that I'm not really paying attention. For defense I kind of stayed off...
MADISON YAKABOSKI In certain ways, we, many of us, stopped paying attention to the world. I have to think we would hav...
KAREN JOY FOWLER I'm pretty much done with mindfulness. I'm just going to start paying attention.
GINA BARRECA He wasn't paying attention. The light was green for me and there was a don't walk sign for him.
CARL HARRIS A balanced life, giving attention to all areas, is what makes one feel successful.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
WILLIAM MORRIS A lot of what acting is paying attention.
ROBERT REDFORD The Mafia is paying attention. It is watching.
ANTONIO INGROIA If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.
TOM PETERS A lot of what acting is paying attention.
NANCY REAGAN When nobody is paying attention, anything is possible.
ALAN GRAYSON If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention.
JACK CARTER There's no certainty to the next couple of years, ... . . . But people are paying attention now. An...
ANDREW MCMAHON There's no certainty to the next couple of years, ... . . . But people are paying attention now. And...
ANDREW MCMAHON So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you'...
DANIEL KAHNEMAN When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be whe...
MARGARET ATWOOD The government has not been paying much attention to the constitution.
BRIAN CONCANNON It is something that we are paying attention to very closely.
AMY CREWS CUTTS Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life...
NICK CAVE I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.
FELIX DENNIS For me, I've always been Justin Trudeau, son of. All my life I've had to know I was carrying...
JUSTIN TRUDEAU I write because there is nothing as joyful as writing, even when the writing is twisted and full of ...
GARY SHTEYNGART He wasn't paying no attention and I took a chance and stole the ball.
CHADD MOORE There's a new generation of people really paying attention to hybrids, and a lot of new adopters bec...
LONNIE MILLER There's a new generation of people really paying attention to hybrid, and a lot of new adopters beca...
LONNIE MILLER I was very chatty and talkative and always getting sent out of class for talking too much and not pa...
LUCY PUNCH I don't know if you ever really can stop him. But we need to make sure we're paying attention to him...
KARL DORRELL I just told James they paid him the ultimate compliment by paying so much attention to him.
TERRY HOEPPNER People started sending me mail saying I wasn't paying enough attention to the White Sox. I thought o...
JERRY REINSDORF Brazil is paying greater attention to the Arabs in terms of import.
ANTONIO SARKIS Brazil is paying greater attention to the Arabs in terms of import.
ANTONIO SARKIS JR This is the first time the city is paying attention to us.
ELENA DIEGO ...the trouble with poetry is
that it encourages the writing of more poetry...

BILLY COLLINS Of course the Liberal Democrats are going to say things to try and get attention - but I don't t...
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