Andrew Motion
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES DEYTH BANGER WOLE SOYINKA It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft... ANUJ SOMANY RICHARD CARLSON She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING O ANNA NIEMUS RICHARD CARLSON TAMMARA WEBBER MANDY HALE FRANCINE RIVERS That day I realized that at least for the time being, I was becoming Christian’s somebody. MELYSSA WINCHESTER I had just parked my car and was standing across the street, watching the tree sway. Then one of my ... LOREN MILLER FRANCINE RIVERS FRANCINE RIVERS VANILLA ICE In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music.... GARY F EVANS... Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was rea... JANE CAMPION ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow. JIM GENOVESE ALISON MOYET WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE As you get to know what takes you away from life, you have more moments throughout your day where yo... MARY O'MALLEY THICH NHAT HANH , IN THE NEW REPUBLIC The birds aren't that far away; they will show back up. They are pretty mobile. Birds tend to move a... DAVE GRABER Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see thingsE.J. PATTEN The new humane standards allow birds to have a much more normal life, including more space, perches,... ELIZABETH HANSEN LYDIA MILLET There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr... BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO HELEN FIELDING ELLEN HOPKINS A perfectly decent fellow may be driven by circumstances to commit a crime and if he's found out he'... W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM WILLIAM FAULKNER J.D. SALINGER “Love is not to be discovered but felt.It is brewing in air across universe.One needs only open ey... ANUJ SOMANY THICH NHAT HANH JAY ASHER RALPH WALDO EMERSON When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f... GARY F EVANS... It seems like all the best people have all the worst habits. THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people. ANUJ SOMANY I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde... GARY F EVANS... Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost. PST ADELAJA SUNDAY THICH NHAT HANH She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dress... SARAH JIO SOPHOCLES G.K. CHESTERTON You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the... JAN GLIDEWELL I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see. KARINA HALLE NEIL GAIMAN God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name." BJ NELSON RICK RIORDAN In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff. NAMIE AMURO J.D. SALINGER It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light. LAUREN LOLA BELSEBUUB NATASHA TRETHEWEY RAINER MARIA RILKE I don't like playing in this type of game. It gives me a headache. It was one of the ugliest games I... LEON POWE KILROY J. OLDSTER Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end. GEORGE A. MOORE We have tears in our eyes ROALD DAHL Well, 'The Wellspring' was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning ... SHARON OLDS Savor the moment. Set a goal that you value and plan the steps to of getting there in a way that you... TERENCE T. GORSKI SHARON SALZBERG Now is everythingKAREN HACKEL AMIT RAY One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is... R.J. GONZALES As far as my putting, literally 10 minutes before I went out for my first round, this feel came back... K.J. CHOI JOYCE KILMER JOYCE KILMER Pursuit of contentment is not the pursuit of an elusive tomorrow; it is the celebration of today. In... MAJID KAZMI It was a funny race. After getting knocked around in the swim and being so far back, I was looking f... BEVAN DOCHERTY J.A. REDMERSKI As the World Champion, every day is pretty much like Valentine's Day for me - as far as hooking ... JUDAH FRIEDLANDER Now i know what it feels like being Ryan Bingham ARIEL SERAPHINO To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ... CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro... GARY F EVANS... J.A. REDMERSKI MANDY HALE BEN JONSON JOHN GREEN Chris reminds me a lot of a kid I used to coach in the summer, Andrew Davis. He reminds me so much o... JEFF ZICKAFOOSE I’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present. JONATHAN HARNISCH KATE SERINE NEIL GAIMAN Just looking back on the last year, it's been a crazy one, but it's been amazing. Just being able to... BRANDON SNYDER DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER DANIEL BARENBOIM SOLANGE NICOLE PABLO SANDOVAL JOHN GREEN A.A. MILNE JAMES JONES MAYA ANGELOU BETTY SMITH JOHN GREEN J.D. SALINGER
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Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... 
Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me persona... 
Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. 
By the far bridge
many a spent cartridge
Cheney killed 81 birds that day
but in the pear tree
surviv... 
Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. 
You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." 
When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. 
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... 
If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. 
I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years. 
Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a... 
Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... 
I love being middle-aged in general. I'm more at peace with myself now. I still have tormented t... 
The pretty and sweet manner of it forced
Those waters from me which I would have stopped;
But ... 
We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. 
I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n... 
I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b... 
It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at ... 
No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever."
Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had ti... 
I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I al... 
You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now. 
Life is a journey, not a destination. 
Tomorrow is tomorrow.
To him, even the momentary was momentous. 
I know,” said November. He was pale and thin lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. �... 
When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that wo... 
Awareness is not an idea about awareness, as it is not thought at all. Awareness allows you to feel ... 
It is a tremendous honor to be named poet laureate, but one that I find humbling as well, because it... 
To make myself understood and to diminish the distance between us, I called out: “I am an evening ... 
An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now. 
Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it. 
If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath. 
I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree Poems are made by fools like me, But only Go... 
I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree Poems are made by fools like me, But only God... 
His face spreads into a warm smile. “As a matter of fact, no, I have never slept under the stars �... 
Oh, I should probably set a few ground rules before we do this.”
To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r... 
I think that I shall never see
A poem as lovely as a tree.
. . . .
Poems are made by foo... 
He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars. 
I was hardly a fan of being berated like a child even on a good day, so seeing as how the last few d... 
I felt very much like a hooker who had just been told she was a lady of the evening. 
Without God there could be no American form of government nor an American way of life. Recognition o... 
In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here. 
Make every day count... Even when you think it's the worst day of your life; for you never know when... 
All the things that are in the past are in the past. 
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What day is it?"
And let me tell you something else, my friend," she said in the precise enunciation of a trained nur... 
Be present in all things and thankful for all things. 
Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is yo... 
I hate saying corny things like 'traveling incognito.' But when I' with somebody that's corny, I alw... 
Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril. 
I've always thought that the balance between the side of my mind that knows what it is doing and... 
I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair. 
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Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change. 
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The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace. 
John Marshall has made his decision: now let him enforce it! 
I hate bullies. I hate them. I'm not good enough with words to describe how much I hate them. 
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You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb. 
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We have to treat smoking as a major public health issue. We have to reduce the extent to which young... 
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As truly as God by His power once
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Even the people we most admire often feel inadequate. 
Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche. 
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Let who will make the laws of a nation so long as I am permitted to make her songs. 
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Avoid competency traps. Do not stay only where you are good at things, Go out and be challenged. 
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