Giving Quote by Audre Lorde Download Open image “Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.” — Audre Lorde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Giving Helping Nameless Names Poetry Poetry is Way
“Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
. . . it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are-until the poem-nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Poetry teaches us things that cannot be learned in prose, such as certain kinds of irony or the importance of the unsaid. The most… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“A poem that is itself a name does not yearn for the name of its creator, but shines from its name alone.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what… — Wes Nisker Copy Share Image
Poetry is perhaps the oldest art form. We can go back to an age-old idea of naming things, the Adamic impulse - to give… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
Poetry is our heart, our spirit, our soul. Call it whatever; without it, everything else is nothing but hardware. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me-so different… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
There are many kinds of open. . . Love is a word, another kind of open. . . Take my word for jewel in your open light. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too? — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“For once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
the fear of death is that you are dying too soon. Nobody wants to, but at the point that you die you can pray… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“There is an important difference between openness and naïveté. Not everyone has good intentions nor means me well. I remind myself I do not… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever did in… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change,… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“I think that in America there are certain kinds of problems and in Russia there are certain kinds of problems, but basically, when you… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Institutionalized rejection of differences is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such an economy,… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Some people give you that motivation to work harder simply to get the hell away from wherever they are. — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I received a beautiful welcome to the world of music. I want to give something back to the younger generation. — Luciano Pavarotti Copy Share Image
Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
Grandma, please. It’s okay. Dad’s doing a great job. I give him kudos for at least being calm and rational, and not losing his… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Most paper money initially existed as a substitute for gold. That's what gave it value. But right now what gives a currency value is… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
