"I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don't pay attention 'cause it probably has floated into somebody else's head."

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Gwendolyn Brooks

#Poetry Quotes #Causes Quotes #Attention Quotes

“The generation of seeds ... is therefore marvelous and analogous to the other productions of living things. For first of all an umbilicus appears. ... Its extremity gradually expands and after gathering a colliquamentous ichor becomes analogous to an amnion. ... In the course of time the seed or fetus begins to become visible.”
“Listening is not a skill; it is a discipline.”
“I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.”
“Oh, my Lolita, I have only words to play with!”
“Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over.”
“The mentor-mentee relationship is ideally like that of the guru and disciple: motivated by the desire of the guru to impart knowledge to the disciple.”
“Only the schoolsâ€™ inefficiency can account for creativity surviving after age 25.”
“They didn't change positions, they just moved the players around.”

Source : "Venables scores own goal for ITV" by Claire Cozens, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2002.

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