Attempting Quotes - Page 19

• Poetry is very playful with language. I think all poetry, at its heart, is playful. It's doing unusual and playful things with the language, stirring it up. And prose is not doing that. Primarily it's not attempting to do that.

  Pattiann Rogers

  Heart, Thinking, Language

  "A Conversation with Pattiann Rogers". Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009.

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• When I decided to write about my brother and friends, I was attempting to answer the question why. Why did they all die like that? Why so many of them? Why so close together? Why were they all so young? Why, especially, in the kinds of places where we are from? Why would they all die back to back to back to back? I feel like I was writing my way towards an answer in the memoir.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Brother, Writing, Together

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think that by telling the truth and by attempting to be a good citizen, somehow I've ended up playing with fire. And that's really scary.

  Cecily McMillan

  Thinking, Fire, Scary

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm sure thousands of people in the world are taking on twice what I am attempting. I'm really looking forward to it all.

  Stacey King

  People, World, Looking Forward

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• What if happiness is in fact more about remembering who we are, rather than attempting to change anything or anyone at all?

  Lee L Jampolsky

  What If, Who We Are, Facts

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• It's not something where you can say, one time you said this and now you said this. That doesn't peel off any of his people. The only way that you can do it is by out alphaing [Doanld] Trump, and I think that's what Marco Rubio's attempting to do.

  Bernie Sanders

  Thinking, People, Way

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The obsessive documentation is itself adjacent to hyper-consumption in our society. The desire to just have everything all the time and adjacent to that is - it might be a little hokey but - a certain loss of identity that then only gets sort of found or ascribed to these moments that are documented. If so much of your experience is devoted to the thought of documentation, you're already sort of spinning out this narrative from this moment that you are attempting to control instead of just experiencing it.

  Ted Leo

  Loss, Desire, Identity

  Source: www.avclub.com

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