“Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.” WorldLooksStillsTurnsQuietPatienceBoundsNoiseJoyfulDesperationQuiet Desperation Book:High Tide in Tucson Source: High Tide in Tucson
“Why wait for the loss of hearing to appreciate sound? Turn off the white noise of your thoughts and start to listen.” TurnsWaitingSoundLossWhiteAppreciateHearingNoiseTurn OffWhite Noise Author:Bella Bathurst
“If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.” IfsPoetryTurnsAnswersSadnessTalentNoiseAbandonedDragImmenseGiftedTurn-onUrgencyAptitudeSense Of UrgencyGiftedness Author:Joy Harjo
“the ocean, under the pulsation of lighthouses and noise of bell buoys, advances as usual, looking as if it were not that ocean in which dropped things are bound to sink-- in which if they turn and twist, it is neither with volition nor consciousness.” IfsTurnsConsciousnessSeaOceanBoundsNoiseUsualBellsTwistsLighthouseVolitionBuoys Book:Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924 Source: Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924