Quotes About Focus

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space, that you've got to burn away all the peripherals.

Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.

I'm only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline, you've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space that you've just got to turn away all the peripherals.

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.

The ambitions are wake up, breathe, keep breathing.

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.

I like bringing poetry's focus on figurative language and compression into the essay. Of course, the musical properties of language, the cadence of the sentence, are really important to me in prose.

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

I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here.

In times of crisis, it is of utmost importance to keep one's head.

I think we should all focus on who we are, what we want to do, and do it. That is my way. I don't know why anyone would want to do that politics stuff.

In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.

The first thing to say about politics is that politics is not the first thing.

We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up

Reading musses up my mind.

You too can win Nobel Prizes. Study diligently. Respect DNA. Don't smoke. Don't drink. Avoid women and politics. That's my formula.

I don't watch the news, I don't care about politics, I don't care about other sports.

I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.

We ought to be more focused on enemies without than preoccupied with finding them within.

Russian politics was focused for too long on fixing past mistakes - fixing the mistakes made in the 1990s.

It is from the center that leaders must lead.