“What is gentlest in love is love's violence. Losing yourself in love, you reach love's goal. Love makes you suffer, as love makes you whole. Love steals your everything and makes you rich. Love is both meaningless and poetry. Captured… — Marilyn Nelson Copy Share Image
Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong. — Marilyn Nelson Copy Share Image
Writing in form is a way of developing your thinking - your thinking along with the tradition. In a way, it's not you alone,… — Marilyn Nelson Copy Share Image
One of my graduate school professors, to whom I started sending poems when I started writing again after a 10-year hiatus, suggested I prepare… — Marilyn Nelson Copy Share Image
“I did not have to learn to love you: You were chosen for me. I knew that the first time I saw you. —George… — Marilyn Nelson Copy Share Image
After you kind of find your footing, sonnets are what comes easiest. — Marilyn Nelson Copy Share Image
“Since she seen Fortune head in that big pot Miss Lydia say that room make her feel ill, sick with the thought of boiling… — Marilyn Nelson Copy Share Image
“What is gentlest in love is love's violence. Losing yourself in love, you reach love's goal. Love makes you suffer, as love makes you… — Marilyn Nelson Copy Share Image
For much of my life - my sister and I have talked about this - when we moved, we just thought the world behind… — Marilyn Nelson Copy Share Image
Back when I was in college, people used to talk about the alienation of the artist, not ever quite fitting in any place. — Marilyn Nelson Copy Share Image
“When we lose contact, we see only hate, only injustice, a giant so great its shadow blocks our sun.” — Marilyn Nelson Copy Share Image
“The filth hissed at us when we venture out-- always in twos or threes, never alone-- seems less a language spoken than one spat… — Marilyn Nelson Copy Share Image
