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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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