Poetry Quote by Bell Hooks Download Open image “It is poetry that changes everything.” — Bell Hooks ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry
Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change. — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new — Rory Sutherland Copy Share Image
I thought poetry could change everything, could change history and could humanize, and I think that the illusion is very necessary to push poets… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Poetry is a world seen through the eyes of the soul, writing in its being... — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of… — Mike Young Copy Share Image
In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Right now, for many Americans, class is being foregrounded like never before because of the economic situation. It doesn't mean that race doesn't matter,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Most folks believe we are hardwired biologically to long for sex but they do not believe we are hardwired to long for love. Almost… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
... we need to interrogate "reverence," for idolization can be another way one is objectified and not really taken seriously. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“I feel enormously blessed to be a successful black woman writer in this culture, but I have found my small fame, such as it… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
In this culture, the phrase 'black woman' is not synonymous with 'tender,' or 'gentle.' It's as if those words couldn't possibly speak to the… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
It's interesting to look at all the aspects where everyday Americans, many of whom are not college educated, are thinking deeply now about our… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The true teacher is within us. A good teacher is someone who can help you to go back and touch the true teacher within,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Advancing the notion that there can be many "feminisms" has served the conservative and liberal political interests of women seeking status and privileged class… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
