Quotes About Attention

What we are looking for is what is looking.

Slow down. Life is crossing the road.

Often we concentrate on the process and forget the results.

When you sing with love, everyone will listen.

Quand le doigt montre le ciel, l'imbécile regarde le doigt. [When a finger is pointing up to the sky, only a fool looks at the finger.]

Love me!Hate me!I don't care which because either way, you're still talking about me!

Confusion of a Writer - Sometimes I want all limelight to shine on me and sometimes I just want to vanish underneath the deep waters.

A true friend pays attention without seeking it.

Often we are the prisoner of praise and appreciation.

Without a purpose, schools are houses of detention, not attention

One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.

Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.

In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice.

Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values

Poetry today is easier to write but harder to remember.

I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language and to scan.

I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language.

The attention deficit disorder of the culture is very distressing in America now and I think it puts a lot of things at risk, not just poetry.

One doesn't read poetry while thinking of other things.

Haiku is an art that seems dedicated to making people pay attention to the preciousness and particularity of every moment of existence. I think that poetry can do that.

The attention was flattering. For the first five minutes. Now I know how poems feel.

unsignificantlyoff the coastthere wasa splash quite unnoticedthis was Icarus drowning

If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.

American voters have to pay closer attention to politics if they want to avoid four years of whining about the outcome.