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> [“In the poetry of attention, poems are not problems.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-revell/in-the-poetry-of-attention-poems-are-not-problems/)

[Donald Revell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-revell/)

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> [“The poetry of attention is not metaphysical. It trusts the opened eye to see. By faith, the eye stays open. And so the work of poetry is trust that, by faith, is shown to be no work at all.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-revell/the-poetry-of-attention-is-not-metaphysical-it-trusts-the-opened-eye/)

[Donald Revell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-revell/)

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## More by Donald Revell

> [“The sea has left us but the sun remains”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-revell/the-sea-has-left-us-but-the-sun-remains/)

[Donald Revell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-revell/)

> [“In the poetry of attention, poems are not problems.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-revell/in-the-poetry-of-attention-poems-are-not-problems/)

[Donald Revell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-revell/)

> [“And so it was that I became an anthology piece translated along with many others out of the French into your small arms though…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-revell/and-so-it-was-that-i-became-an-anthology-piece-translated-along-with/)

[Donald Revell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-revell/)

> [“the rest are secrets save for oriole which is a color in the afterlife”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-revell/the-rest-are-secrets-save-for-oriole-which-is-a-color-in-the-afterlife/)

[Donald Revell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-revell/)

> [“she shapes her surface lights into the shape of breasts.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-revell/she-shapes-her-surface-lights-into-the-shape-of-breasts/)

[Donald Revell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-revell/)

> [“Creation is the miniature of creation”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-revell/creation-is-the-miniature-of-creation/)

[Donald Revell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-revell/)

> [“Love makes us infamous when love is coldly true”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-revell/love-makes-us-infamous-when-love-is-coldly-true/)

[Donald Revell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-revell/)

> [“The world has a body and I have none”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-revell/the-world-has-a-body-and-i-have-none/)

[Donald Revell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-revell/)

> [“Beauty for Beauty's sake and only later for the sake of others, newborn for a day.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-revell/beauty-for-beauty-s-sake-and-only-later-for-the-sake-of-others/)

[Donald Revell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-revell/)

> [“Some motionless conflict in the sky”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-revell/some-motionless-conflict-in-the-sky/)

[Donald Revell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-revell/)

> [“the distance fills and nearness is a void”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-revell/the-distance-fills-and-nearness-is-a-void/)

[Donald Revell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-revell/)

> [“One life one life and a broken tree it two trees mine a dead branch among the hundred living”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-revell/one-life-one-life-and-a-broken-tree-it-two-trees-mine-a-dead-branch/)

[Donald Revell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-revell/)

> [“I have caught sight of my true friend rounding the hillside in his cloak of rain”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-revell/i-have-caught-sight-of-my-true-friend-rounding-the-hillside-in-his/)

[Donald Revell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-revell/)

> [“I have seen a sparrow becoming the world's end”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-revell/i-have-seen-a-sparrow-becoming-the-world-s-end/)

[Donald Revell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-revell/)

> [“I walk reciting every quiet word I know...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-revell/i-walk-reciting-every-quiet-word-i-know/)

[Donald Revell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-revell/)

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