“Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 57 of 303
“I guess what concerns me always is the need for a field, a rich compost, for any art to flourish. But however isolate or unheard you may feel, if you have the need to write poetry, are compelled to write it, you go on, whether there is resonance or not.”
“Hear this Robert Zimmerman, I wrote a song for you, about a strange young man called Dylan with a voice like sand and glue.”
“I think the first song I ever wrote ... was called "Can't Help Thinking About Me." That's an illuminating little piece, isn't it?”
“You should turn around at the end of the day and say I really like that piece of work, or that piece of work sucked. Not, was that popular or wasn't it popular?”
“& all your friends telling you stories that you often misinterpret and taint all the images of yo Mr Perfect”
“Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and more in the modern world, large business rests on rectitude and honor as well as on good judgment.”
“When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.”
“I used to take on trust a man's deeds after having listened to his words. Now having listened to a man's words I go on to observe his deeds.”
“We have to be self-critical even in context that we might be critical of, even as we - our pieces appear in it.”
“In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.”
“How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man.”
“Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.”
“Poems aren't postcards to send home.”
“Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.”
“My words itch at your ears till you understand them”
“Preposterous ass, that never read so far to know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of man, after his studies or his usual pain?”
“The enduring is something which must be accounted for. One cannot simply shrug it off.”
“The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books.”
“With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for that much of what I have felt.'”