Change Quote by Kevin Young Download Open image “Poems evolve. I don't feel like I choose them; they just come to me.” — Kevin Young ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Change Choose Come Evolve Feel Like Poetry
I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough. — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
It is clear that we do not exactly choose our poems; our poems choose us. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Sweetheart, when you break thru you'll find a poet here, not quite what one would choose. — Diane di Prima Copy Share Image
I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me. — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
Poems have their own fates, like children. You have only to give birth to them. — Andrei Voznesensky Copy Share Image
I never find words right away. Poems for me always begin with images and rhythms, shapes, feelings, forms, dances in the back of my… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
I'm always talking about how the poems I am most obsessed with are like people: complex and unknowable and with a huge capacity for… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
I like poems that inspire, that make us think and reflect. It's like putting love into the world for whoever picks it up. — Peleg Top Copy Share Image
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being,… — T. S. Eliot 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
Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I can't believe that I'm sitting in meetings with Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and Annette Bening. I want to take on that responsibility to… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
“…progress isn't necessarily about change but about things turning out as we want them to” — Phil Hogan Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
When you walk down the street of Kabul your values for life changes, they do change. — Marco Pierre White Copy Share Image
Your world will change whether or not you choose to change, but you have the power to choose it's direction. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“Stay focused on bringing people together and more on positive messaging so that you can be the change you wish to see in the… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the… — Kim Alexis Copy Share Image
“After the funeral, my life changed. I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an open drain, and I could not… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
