Connection Quote by Kevin Young Download Open image “A poem can provide testimony. A poem can provide solace. It can provide a connection.” — Kevin Young ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Connection Poem Poetry Solace Testimony
What a poem can do is provide you this intimate eye that, for the length of a poem and hopefully a little bit after,… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
A poem is what the reader lives through under the guidance of the text and experiences as relevant to the text. — Louise Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Before you go further, let me tell you what a poem brings, first, you must know the secret, there is no poem to speak… — Juan Felipe Herrera Copy Share Image
“Poetry can bridge that gap between what is solid and what is suggested; poetry can pull cogent meaning from the veiled truths outside of… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
A poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it. — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen. — Fleur Adcock Copy Share Image
The meaning of a poem is in the cadences and the shape of the lines and the pulse of the thought which is given… — George Oppen Copy Share Image
My feeling is that poetry is also a healing process, and then when a person tries to write poetry with depth or beauty, he… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
There's always been really interesting, diverse black voices talking and arguing and counterpointing. — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
I think Barnum is at the center of American culture. He's helping to invent what we now think of as pop culture. He invented… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
I do think there's a certain savviness to be able to recognize the way people want a good story, and I think that we… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
Here are the facts: my folks grew up so poor that, in the words of Redd Foxx, there were twenty o's between the p… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
Even Toni Morrison claiming Bill Clinton as 'black' could not prepare us for the election of America's first undeniably black president, Barack Obama. — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
A DJ draws a connection between two seemingly disparate things and says, 'Look, they are alike. You can dance to them.' — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
Forget reparations - we need to rescue aspects of black culture abandoned even by black folks, whether it is the blues or home cookin'… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
I remember in the '80s, people would literally have arguments over the best guitarist. — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
In African-American culture, there's often a family historian, someone who does the genealogy or keeps the family Bible. I became aware that might be… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
“Deep Song Belief is what buries us—that & the belief in belief— No longer do I trust liltlessness —leeward is the world's way—Go on… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
I believe that we have a huge problem with the water in America. We don't want to make that connection that these chemicals, at… — Erin Brockovich Copy Share Image
There's overwhelming evidence... circumstantial and otherwise, to suggest a connection between Iraq and al Qaeda. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Religion is no longer a connection point for most people. Our communities were built on coming together in physical locations once a week or… — Miguel McKelvey Copy Share Image
“A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or a scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
I'm uninterested in superheroes. I am only interested in real stories, real people, real connection. — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
There's a spectrum of those moments of connection and the moments we fail to connect, going from super-large successes to failures. Success would be… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
I always have this sense of food as triangular, in that one point is nourishment, one point is connection, and one point is pleasure,… — Crescent Dragonwagon Copy Share Image
I don't mind writing so I didn't find that difficult, it's just a question of finding the time to do it. I kind of… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
Oprah's stock in trade has always been her powerful unmediated connection. She could feel your pain and empower you to talk about it. — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
