Attention Quote by Mark Strand Download Open image “Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.” — Mark Strand ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Attention Life Pay attention Paying Attention Poetry Prove Writing Writing poetry
Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems. — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
...poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
To open the dictionary of the Beyond and discover what one suspected, that the only word in it is nothing. — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
“The ultimate self-effacement is not the pretense of the minimal, but the jocular considerations of the maximal in the manner of Wallace Stevens.” — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
“Keeping Things Whole" In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest. — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
Poetry is about slowing down. You sit and you read something, you read it again, and it reveals a little bit more, and things… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
These wrinkles are nothing These gray hairs are nothing, This stomach which sags with old food, these bruised and swollen ankles, my darkening brain,… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure. — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
In a field I am the absence of field.That is always the case. Wherever I am, I am what is missing. When I walk… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
People pay far too much attention to the television and they're quite literal in some ways. At the beginning, when I was playing very… — Ardal O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands… — Joseph Prince Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What people don't normally know about us is the hustle is very real, and it's sorely driven a lot by how we consider ourselves.… — Lzzy Hale Copy Share Image
For me, the term "psychotherapy" is limiting. It implies that we work with mind and emotions, but excludes the body and pays scant attention… — Jed Diamond Copy Share Image
When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave… — Minor White Copy Share Image
I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I went to a mosque in Philadelphia with [my wife] in December 24, 1999. And we we went to this mosque in Philly, and… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ...… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
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