#need

If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#aspirations #bible #distribution #fears #hopes

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#like #meaning #most #nature #need

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#every #living #men #needs #redeem

I sometimes got distracted easily and allowed my mind to wander when I needed to be focused. It's quite subtle, really, and just being aware of it helps. ↗

— Payne Stewart

#aware #being #distracted #easily #focused

I very rarely saw Tom Kite around. I've talked to Tom about it. I don't think Michael Jordan needed to be on the captain's cart with Kite; he needed to be walking in the gallery, supporting them from outside the ropes. ↗

— Payne Stewart

#around #captain #cart #gallery #i

Mitt has a ton of consultants, and not one of them thought he needed a credible answer on Bain or taxes? ↗

— Mark Steyn

#consultants #credible #mitt #needed #taxes

The Romney candidacy is better than it was four years ago, but it's not clear that it's good. Mitt needs to get good real fast: A real speech, real plan, real responses, and real fire in the belly. ↗

— Mark Steyn

#belly #better #candidacy #clear #fast

International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#banks #education #focus #go #infrastructure

I feel that good fantasy will always be in demand. I think children especially need literature that helps them escape from the real world, which is very scary to them right now. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#children #demand #escape #especially #fantasy

I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me. ↗

— Sting

#big enough #creative #emotional #enough #i