Allusions Quote by Jamila Woods Download Open image “I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music.” — Jamila Woods ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Allusions Allusions Poetry Borrow Like Like Borrow Lot Allusions Music Poetry Poetry and music Poetry Music Use
The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've… — Ronnie James Dio Copy Share Image
I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative. — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
I switch between fixed forms and free verse often, and enjoy being a poet who can "swing both ways," so to speak. — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
I like bringing poetry's focus on figurative language and compression into the essay. Of course, the musical properties of language, the cadence of the… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
I like to use research to enlarge the poem. And sometimes a rhetorical or syntactical gesture stitches the poem along. — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Poetry is one of the easiest forms of writing; as long as you're willing to sell your soul to the world.” — Shawna Platt (Angel Shadow Copy Share Image
Me and my three younger siblings, we sang together in grandma's church, and I was in the Chicago Children's Choir in high school, but… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
My mentor made me say a poem over and over. 'Stop! That's not your voice. Start again.' I was sobbing by the end, but… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
Music is something that is supposed to connect people on a pure level. — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
The lake was always my orienting point when my dad was teaching me how to not get lost. The lake is east, so you'll… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
They say Chicago is for haters. No one will just sweat each other and say, 'Oh, you're so good,' if you're not. Which is… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
I read 'Song of Solomon' by Toni Morrison in college, and it just blew my mind. — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
I really value what Closed Sessions is doing to build the Chicago music scene and am excited to partner with them for my first… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
In some ways, I value specificity. I think that there's power in, once you know who your fan base is, being able to speak… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
A lot of people get Chicago wrong. I've developed this protective feeling about how we're portrayed, and at the same time, I'm acutely aware… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
I think of music as creating a space. I like to put things in that are comforting to me and are nostalgic. To me,… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
I don't know if it's because I grew up in Beverly or my friends, but I listened to a lot of alternative rock music.… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
“The human egg is a Mrs. Bennet, desperate to marry off her daughters...It is a truth universally acknowledged that a sperm must be in… — Daryl Gregory Copy Share Image
“Literature is the original Internet – every footnote, every citation, every allusion is essentially a hyperlink to another text, to another mind.” — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
“Even before the letter he'd been divided: one part of him swanning with Jay Gatsby around an imaginary Gotham; the other part stolid and… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“They weren't kicked out of the Garden of Eden because of their thirst for knowledge; they developed their thirst for knowledge by being kicked… — Michael Walterich Copy Share Image
“I deplored silence. I deplored stillness. I hated almost everything. I was very unhappy and angry all the time. I tried to control myself,… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image