Believe Quote by Mark Strand

Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is…

— Agnes Repplier

Once an author finishes a poem, he becomes merely another reader. I may remember what I intended to put into a text, but what…

— Dana Gioia

He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.

— Thomas Carlyle

“Without play at many levels of language, from phonemes to logical structures, a poem is merely prose with linebreaks added.”

— Helen Vendler

“A shell in the pit," said I, "if the worst comes to worst will kill them all." The intense excitement of the events had…

— H.G. Wells

“Discard all shortsightedness, Do away with all narrowmindedness. Move high, from "my, my, my", Be a champion of collective progress!”

— Abhijit Naskar

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

So I think there's a lot of people who are really interested to see how good I really am, because they know I'm good,…

— Ben Askren

A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

...the most dangerous shortsightedness consists in underestimating the mediocre.

— Georges Bernanos

“The progress of humanity is stalled by human hubris. AI’s progress, by their intelligent shortsightedness.”

— F.C. Quiles

What are we to think of the shortsightedness of the great mass of people who are content to do nothing about it, and even…

— Allen W. Wood