I am committed by trade to urging people to attend…

“too much explanation can take the pleasure out of any poetry. (Preface, vii)”

— Harold G. Henderson

The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.

— Sharon Salzberg

The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail.

— David O. Selznick

Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool.

— Peter J. Daniels

“so much depends on where we put our attention:”

— Dalai Lama XIV

“Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. Poetry depends upon intellectual freedom.”

— Virginia Woolf

Being a poet in the States is quite different from being one in China, because in the States poetry depends on the universities for…

— Bei Dao

“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my…

— Alexandria Clarke

The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from…

— Richard Dawkins

“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the…

— Erica Jong

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

— David Hare

“Time gives poetry to a battlefield...”

— Graham Greene

A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the…

— Samuel R. Delany

The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine.

— Meena Harris

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

— Carl Rakosi