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

-- Li-Young Lee

#Writing Quotes #Voice Quotes #Attention Quotes

“I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions.”
“I sing of a woman with ink on her hands and pictures hidden beneath her hair. I sing of a dog with skin like velvet pushed the wrong way.I sing of the shape a fallen body makes in the dirt beneath a tree, and I sing of an ordinary man who is wanted to know things no human being could tell him.This is the true beginning.”

Source : Carolyn Parkhurst (2003). “The Dogs of Babel”, Large Print Press
“I've always loved [acting] and I've always wanted to [do it] from as far back as I can remember.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove the sweetness of a shower.”

Source : 'Tall Nettles' (1917)
“Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.”
“You stay in touch with the boy who dreamed impossible dreams.”
“I believe that competition in the future will not be only an advertising competition between individual products or between big associations, but that it will in addition be a competition of propaganda.”
“Aside from mastery in the fine arts, success in learning anything is the result of genuine interest and amount of energy dedicated to it.”

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