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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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All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little…
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Eating alone is a disappointment. But not eating matter more, is hollow and green, has thorns like a chain of fish hooks,…
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The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.
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Organic chemistry is the study of organs; inorganic chemistry is the study of the insides of organs.
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I felt so full of gratitude and humility that I clasped my hands in front of me, closed my eyes and said…
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I ain't sleeping. I'm just taking a good look at the insides of my eyelids.
— Jonathan Raban
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Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.
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I've solved the mystery: You have to submit silently. Open up, let go. Let anything penetrate you, even the most painful things.…
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If we were truly created by God, why do we occasionally bite the insides of our mouths?
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I think a lot of people compare their insides to other people’s outsides.
— Emma Stone
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The most relaxing thing i do, hang halfway out a 3rd floor window, and look at rocks if i fall out. Well…
— Al Kaline
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She had six months at most left to live. She had cancer, she hissed. A filthy growth eating her insides away. There…
— Helen Hodgman
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