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Yusef Komunyakaa has 26 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Poetry is a process of getting back to the unconscious. Hence, I am always writing-even when I'm not facing the white space.…
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Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives…
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I think of language as our first music.
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Blue is the insides of something mysterious and lonely. I'd look at fish and birds, thinking the sky and water colored them.…
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Cursing themselves in ragged dreamsfire has singed the edges of,they know a slow dying the fields have come to terms with.Shimmering fans…
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I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
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It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an…
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Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.
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Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential…
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I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined,…
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Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.
— John Wayne
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Minds, like parachutes, function better when open, but, like fists, they strike harder when closed.
— L.E. Modesitt Jr.
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Believing in one’s own art becomes harder and harder when the public response grows fonder.
— Cindy Sherman
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It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your…
— Steve McConnell
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When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all the harder.…
— B. C. Forbes
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You all seem to think that you should marry someone when you feel this intense emotion, which you call love. And then…
— J. Courtney Sullivan
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The person who works harder when the boss isn’t around is headed straight for a better job.
— Napoleon Hill
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The cruelty of nature is you have to work out harder when you get older ... It should be the other way…
— Clint Eastwood
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I have times when I doubt what I'm doing. When those moments hit, I think about how grateful I am to be…
— Kimbra
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I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you…
— Madeleine Albright
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A merger is hard to pull off under any circumstances. It's harder when everybody is against you.
— Carly Fiorina
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I think fame is harder when people have something to hide, but I'm very comfortable, and have nothing to hide.
— Nicole Richie
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