To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer. — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more… — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
“these hips are big hips. they need space to move around in. they don't fit into little petty places.” — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn't come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody… — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
don’t write out of what I know; I write out of what I wonder. I think most artists create art in order… — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
wishes for sons by Lucille Clifton i wish them cramps. i wish them a strange town and the last tampon. I wish them no… — Lucille Clifton Copy Share
“these hips are big hips. they need space to move around in. they don't fit into little petty places.” — Lucille Clifton Copy Share
You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking. — Lucille Clifton Copy Share
In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And… — Lucille Clifton Copy Share
If i should enter the house and speak with my own voice, at last, about its awful furnitutre, pulling apart the covering over the… — Lucille Clifton Copy Share
To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer. — Lucille Clifton Copy Share
“i am rejuvenated bones rising from the dear floor where they found you” — Lucille Clifton Copy Share
All people, even one's own children, come with baggage. When they're little, you have to help them carry it. But when they grow up,… — Lucille Clifton Copy Share
