"Etymology: curious, related to cure, once meant ‘carefully observant’. Maybe a tonic of curiosity would counter my numbing sense that life inevitably creeps toward the absurd, could provide a therapy through observation of the ordinary and obvious, a means whereby the outer eye opens an inner one. STOP, LOOK, LISTEN, the old railroad crossing signs warned. Whitman calls it ‘the profound lesson of reception’.
— Gay Watson, Attention