Poem Quotes by Sarah Kay

10 Poem quotes by Sarah Kay

Sarah Kay’s poetry bursts with energy, storytelling, and a youthful optimism. This short set captures her talent for turning personal anecdotes into vivid, relatable moments that linger after the read.

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“It is December, and nobody asked if I was ready.”

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Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the…

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When words become a poem, it makes sense to me, but I don't know how to explain to someone why the words…

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I use poetry to help me work through what I don’t understand, but I show up to each new poem with a…

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My first spoken word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of being seen as unfeminine.…

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Sometimes the only way I know how to work through something is by writing a poem. And sometimes I get to the…

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I don't remember the first poem that I wrote because I've been creating poems since I was around 2 or 3. I…

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Sometimes I am puzzling over something for months and months and the poem gets created in small bursts and rewritten a hundred…

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Poetry is like pooping. If there is a poem inside of you, it has to come out. Sometimes it can be really…

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“If I should have a daughter…“Instead of “Mom”, she’s gonna call me “Point B.” Because that way, she knows that no matter…

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“Once, she fell off of a ladder when I was three. She says all she was worried about was my face as I watched…

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“I love you as much as the ocean kisses the shore no matter how many times it is sent away.”

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I write poetry to figure things out. It's what I use as a navigating tool in my life, so when there's something that I…

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Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in…

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Poetry makes people nervous. Especially in schools.

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There are parts of me I only recognize from photographs.

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“What is it about immortality? With the right sword and shield, we think we can fend off anger, fear, and hatred. If our legs…

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“And the spaces that he never saw: the ones my parents had labeled private parts when I was still small enough to fit all…

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Think it's so unfair when people think that you're not a "real artist" unless you're getting paid for it…I personally know so many poets…

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“There is a girl who still writes you; she doesn’t know how not to.”

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My first spoken word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of being seen as unfeminine. The poem…

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