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The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real SIMONE WEIL
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other han... JEAN COCTEAU Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes ...
SIMONE VEIL
Everybody is on the run. Either from something or someone. ANTHONY T. HINCKS
The poet takes the best things out of his life and puts them into his work. Hence his work is beauti... LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.
ROBERT HALL
A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove ... E. B. WHITE The biggest attraction and distraction that happens simultaneously to one's attention are with his s...
ANUJ SOMANY I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ...
HLONIM
They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned. JACK KEROUAC
I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my... JACK KEROUAC
I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi... CORY DOCTOROW Sometimes fixing the broken window does create real economic activity.
EDWARD KEON
A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and f... DAVID RICARDO The poet strips naked. The philosopher takes notes.
MARTY RUBIN I don't have a lot of domestic instincts," Ranger said to me, his attention fixing on the unidentifi...
JANET EVANOVICH
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are no... ELBERT HUBBARD
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are no... ELBERT HUBBARD A real totalitarianism is at work in the world and wants to impose its views not only on Arab Muslim...
PATRICK CHAPPATTE
For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of... JOSEPH BRODSKY It takes just a few thoughts of the people to know who they are actually, but only to a person who i...
ANUJ SOMANY Until we identity the real cause of an ailment or problem,finding the cure will only be a mirage.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.
MANFRED VON RICHTHOFEN
Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past...... ASSEGID HABTEWOLD
Man enjoys living on the edge of his dreams and neglects the real things of the world which are so b... AUGUSTE RODIN
But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended. ELIZABETH PETERS But when have I ever needed saving?
"Are you a Wendy?" I whisper to myself, scanning the low ro...
TRACY WARD I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a th...
MAXIMILIAN SCHELL
Injustice in the end produces independence. VOLTAIRE
I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas ... CHINUA ACHEBE There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
A. R. AMMONS I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then som...
CATHERINE MCCORMACK
The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his mo... HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable... J.D. SALINGER
Shall any gazer see with mortal eyes, Or any searcher know by mortal mind? Veil after veil will lift... EDWIN ARNOLD Fixing the election date is done by royal decree.
VASANA PUEMLARP
But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic id... CHINUA ACHEBE
True faith always produces real conformity to Christ. R.C. SPROUL I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people. JOHN WYCLIFFE
The poet is like the earth's shadow. The sun moves, and the poet writes something down. EILEEN MYLES According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic t...
SALVATORE QUASIMODO The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is posse...
LIONEL TRILLING
I had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker. BARBARA CORCORAN I write to music, and Nina Simone is always on my playlist to write to. I mean, she's inspiring....
GINA PRINCE-BYTHEWOOD
There is, I am sensible, an age at which every individual of you would choose to stop; and you will ... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
But thing in the past are like plate that’s shattered to pieces. You can never put it back togethe... HARUKI MURAKAMI
The whole town had instantly gone to bed; the only noise now was barking dogs. How could I ever slee... JACK KEROUAC
I ate apple pie and ice cream—it was getting better as I got deeper into Iowa, the pie bigger, the... JACK KEROUAC
Somewhere along the line, the pearl would be handed to me. JACK KEROUAC
It seems to me that we spend an inordinate amount of time and attention on fixing ourselves when we ... EVE ENSLER
I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is t... VLADIMIR NABOKOV The horn is perhaps the least efficient instrument of the brass family, but it produces the most bea...
BARRY TUCKWELL
The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people. DANIEL WEBSTER
By the time we've made it, we've had it. MALCOLM FORBES
I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20. JOHN LITHGOW
How people started to disappear??It's an interesting question isn't it?
I guess on 89% su...
DEYTH BANGER The poet lifts his pen as the soldier sheaths his sword.
JETHRO TULL
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. VICTOR HUGO
The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not ... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations pro...
GEORGE PIERCE BAKER
I'm interested in the real world. EDWARD BOND
Oh, happy triumph of the poet! - to hear his verses wedded to sweet sounds, and warbled by the woman... SAMUEL LOVER You're walking around here with a smile on your face, Asher. It's freaking everybody out.
VICTORIA DAHL
I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, mak... LORD CHESTERFIELD
stop fixing your bodies and start fixing the world. EVE ENSLER
A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips t... E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poe...
SALVATORE QUASIMODO My biggest satisfaction is always when I make something beautiful and well-done that I can see on a ...
FRIDA GIANNINI
And spare the poet for his subject's sake. WILLIAM COWPER
Beautiful things don't ask for attention. JAMES THURBER If you come to help us,for the moment,you will not gain any profit. We have no oil. We have nothing ...
HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make i... TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT
Sometimes, he thought, real love is silent as well as blind. STEPHEN KING
That's what real love amounts to- letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for wh... JIM MORRISON
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. ABRAHAM LINCOLN
What's Your Road, Man? JACK KEROUAC Next time I expect you to act a little friendlier and remember that we would like to get out of here...
TRACEY WARD Merry Christmas.” he says quietly, pulling something from his back pocket.
I frown in confusi...
TRACEY WARD
Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I ... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER ... I don't believe in ghosts - not the scary white sheet, boogie-woogie type of ghost anyway. And y...
KAREN TAYLEUR Man on Wire
LIVVY ANDERSON
We all grew up, those of us who took On the Road to heart. We came to cringe a little at our ... SARAH VOWELL
Why should I shatter your wonderful fantasy with my boring reality? ~ Evie Snow CARRIE HOPE FLETCHER
He felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the... HARUKI MURAKAMI
I want to burn with excitement or anger and bleed, bleed out my words. I want to get all fucked up a... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON
Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I ... VICTORIA MORAN Adam leaned down and placed his lips next to her ear. He blew gently on it before he spoke. Mona lea...
QUINN LOFTIS As you get to know what takes you away from life, you have more moments throughout your day where yo...
MARY O'MALLEY
The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into th... G.K. CHESTERTON
The President was considering doing something presidential to try to focus attention away from -- hi... ARLEN SPECTER
To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrat... W. H. AUDEN I enjoyed working with Simone. She always kept you laughing and in a good mood. I want to wish Simon...
DOUG SHARP
The real biographies of poets are like those of birds, almost identical - their data are in the way ... JOSEPH BRODSKY
God is the perfect poet, / Who in his person acts his own creations. ROBERT BROWNING
It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new. DEMOCRITUS
It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new DEMOCRITUS
I tend to be so lost in the work that I don't notice the weather. My partner will come home and ... EMMA DONOGHUE Some US economists assume that the exchange rate is the key to fixing the trade imbalance However, s...
ZHOU XIAOCHUAN When Castro was put on trial in 1953 by Batista's government and asked who was intellectually re...
BRIN-JONATHAN BUTLER
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justi... 
The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest. 
I'll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. I mean really, no fear! 
Did you know that the human voice is the only pure instrument? That it has notes no other instrument... 
Most athletes get intimidated once they see how many fans are out there, but it almost calms me down... 
Physical intimacy is easy. Emotional intimacy is hard. 
I have an extended family of close friends, guy and girls. 
It's always exciting when you love something and you get the opportunity to share it with more p... 
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people tog... 
Look at me, chica." When she does, I repeat, "Eres hermosa."
Are you following me?" she asks, but doesn't meet my gaze.
The reason I want you to put a shirt on is, well, because, um..." 
I would say to always follow your dream. And dream big because my whole career, including any of the... 
I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's question... 
You do what you want and know is right. That is the only law. 
At the end of the day, if I can say I had fun, it was a good day. 
I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the worl... 