"What feeling feels like over time. An attempt……" — Stephen Dunn
"What feeling feels like over time. An attempt to screw up what feeling feels like over time. Heartbreak and a high C.... The often welcome melodic lie.... The soul's undersong. The orchestration of randomness, a flirtation with the boundaries of silence and space.... a reminder that the self wants to disappear, be taken away from itself and returned."
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22 Quotes by Stephen Dunn
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There are always the simple events of your life that you might try to convert into legend.
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Better to be furious at one thing, become radiant with purpose. Better to love links and rhythms than all-embracing answers.
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And the words we find are always insufficient, like love, though they are often lovely and all we have.
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Isn't there a curious elegance in how one moment passes into another?
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I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And…
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exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I…
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Everything I can't see / is at least as real as what I can.
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Now and again I feel the astonishment of being alive like this, in this body.
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I will try to disappoint you better than anyone ever has.
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I love what's left after love has been tested.
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When I stop becoming, that's when I worry.
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Altruism is for those who can't endure their desires. There's a world as ambiguous as a moan, a pleasure moan…
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More Attempt Quotes
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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
— Francis Bacon
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I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young,…
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
— Balthus
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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly…
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The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat.…
— Max Baucus
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Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get…
— Kate Beckinsale
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished'…
— John Berger
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Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle…
— Alfred Adler
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to…
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Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
— Theodor Adorno
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Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been…
— Michael Bloomberg
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