Intent Quotes

I have been writing. Even when I intend not to write, I find myself writing. I’m currently in a place where I should be putting together the fifth book, but then more poems are coming. It’s exciting and somewhat daunting.

He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.

You know how we are when a new book of poems is at last coming together – all frenzy, distraction, and bounty? It’s as if I’ve turned into summer itself.

The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.

I intend to make Georgia howl.

My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.

He implies that it is possible to demonstrate logically and experimentally the relationship between the proposed means and the ends they are intended to further.

Or does it signal the true intent of the national and worldwide environmental movement?