Mud Quote by Kevin Young Download Open image “I think poems return us to that place of mud and dirt and earth, sun and rain.” — Kevin Young ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mud Nature Place Poetry Rain Sun Sun and rain Us
“Some poems take us places where no words reach, no thought, they take you up to the core itself, life stops for one moment and becomes beautiful, it becomes clear with regret and happiness. Some poems change the day, the night, your life. Some poems make you forget, forget the sadness, the hopelessness, you forget your waterproof, the frost comes… — Jón Kalman Stefánsson Copy Share
Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry because, in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry. — Valerie Worth Copy Share Image
“I can't write poetry like you, but I can talk with nature... And when I come back... we put our beds side by side… — Bettina Brentano Copy Share Image
“Here they have no time for the fine graces of poetry, unless it freely grows in deep compulsion, like water in the well, woven… — Iain Crichton Smith Copy Share Image
Never forget that the subject is as important as your feeling; the mud puddle itself is as important as your pleasure in looking at… — Valerie Worth Copy Share Image
I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave. — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
Poetry can startle you, awaken you, make you fall in love, take your breath away. When those words sink in, you'll never look at… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't yet in… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something… — Mary Oliver 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
One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud; And sure, the reverent eye must see A purpose in… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
From my image of digging around in the mud like a grunt, I preferred fighting the war from ships. — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
Our love was born outside the walls, in the wind, in the night, in the earth, and that's why the clay and the flower,… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Plato, the first true pope of philosophy (sorry, Socrates), argued for a World of Forms above the reality-a transcendent plane of perfect essences, pure… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
The worst parts of playing a festival are walking. Not a fan of walking. The mud, I can handle. But the walking? No, ta. — Gerry Cinnamon Copy Share Image
And also, one is a mother in order to understand the inexplicable. One is a mother to lighten the darkness. One is a mother… — Mariama Bâ Copy Share Image
If he had a million men he would swear the enemy has two millions, and then he would sit down in the mud and… — Edwin M. Stanton Copy Share Image
It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
We are creating a political demolition derby, not a presidential debate. Those strange impulses in the American soul that have produced mud wrestling and… — Hugh Sidey Copy Share Image
