I think I go with the Duke Ellington view on music. He said, 'There's two kinds of music - there's good music,… — Kevin Young Go Copy Share Image
In many ways, I feel like the form carries so much of the weight in a poem, obviously. But I think we… — Kevin Young Feel Copy Share Image
“holding tight / to their pocketbooks / at the pearly gates / just in case.” — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
The question of sort of music and history, I think, are so important to understanding the poem as an idea but also… — Kevin Young History Copy Share Image
I think that I try really hard to think about how we deceive ourselves, and we let ourselves be deceived. — Kevin Young Deceive Copy Share Image
Music and the blues, they have taught me a lot. I think in this book, 'Book Of Hours,' there is this blues… — Kevin Young Blues Copy Share Image
I'm not a historian. I know historians. I've worked with them. They have a really powerful way of looking at the world,… — Kevin Young History Copy Share Image
I think music is poetry in the sense that I think the condition of poetry I'm going for has some qualities of… — Kevin Young I think Copy Share Image
In the absence of an answer that is complicated and sort of maybe troubling, we sometimes settle for the easy answer. It's… — Kevin Young Believe Copy Share Image
Listen to the late Isaac Hayes covering 'Walk on By' by Burt Bacharach or Mayfield singing The Carpenters' vanilla-seeming 'We've Only Just… — Kevin Young Change Copy Share Image
Can you explore real issues as a fake character? Yes - it's called acting. Or fiction. But acting is not a method… — Kevin Young Acting Copy Share Image
The mid-eighteen-thirties marked the rise of eugenics and racialism, with phrenology emerging as just one of the many pseudosciences that sought to… — Kevin Young Difference Copy Share Image
Poems evolve. I don't feel like I choose them; they just come to me. — Kevin Young Change Copy Share Image
The first rule of influence is that there isn't any. The second rule of influence is that it is everywhere. — Kevin Young Everywhere Copy Share Image
I try to read as a reader and also read as a writer. I mean, they're not so different. — Kevin Young Books Copy Share Image
We had moved cross-country from upstate New York to Kansas in the heat wave of 1980, with two cars, no air-conditioning, and… — Kevin Young Dog Copy Share Image
It's hard to describe one's own alchemy that makes one into a writer, but I definitely think American language is so interesting,… — Kevin Young Alchemy Copy Share Image
I write about what hoaxers do, but I also want us to think about what believers do. Why do we want to… — Kevin Young Believe Copy Share Image
“Like hot food I love you like warm bread & cold cuts, butter sammiches or, days later, after Thanksgiving when I want… — Kevin Young Food Copy Share Image
“Letters I've never sent. This life we're only renting. Battered the world is - bartered - wander over it the stars finding… — Kevin Young Life Copy Share Image
“To waste this heart once more & have you here, not silent, only quiet, as before.” — Kevin Young Solitude Copy Share Image
