Acting Quote by Kola Boof

Reading about people who were so truly voiceless and powerless - Liberian child soldiers, Sudanese refugees, and, especially, Kashmiri women whose husbands or sons…

— Sabaa Tahir

“Colonizers write about flowers. I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daisies. I want to be like those…

— Noor Hindi

“DEAR DI­ARY You are greater than the Bible And the Con­fer­ence of the Birds And the Up­an­ishads All put to­geth­er You are more se­vere…

— Leonard Cohen

In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When only the moon rages And the lovers lie abed With all their…

— Dylan Thomas

“You, Bedouin of Libya who saved our lives, though you will dwell forever in my memory yet I shall never be able to recapture…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude…

— Edward Everett

“Who do I write for? I thought about this again and again over the next few days until the answer crystalized in my consciousness.…

— Diriye Osman

...I put down these memorandums of my affections in honor of tenderness, in honor of all of those who have been conscripted into the…

— Edward Hirsch

“Terry Allen and a larger portion of his 1st Division descended on Oran from the sandstone hills above St. Cloud, a key crossroads east…

— Rick Atkinson

“On Being Asked to Write a Poem Against the War in Vietnam Well I have and in fact more than one and I'll tell…

— Hayden Carruth

What we really need the poet's and orator's I help to keep alive in us is not, then, the common and gregarious courage which…

— William James

“A poem exists only in the relation between poet and reader. And I'm in need of my readers, except that they never cease to…

— Mahmoud Darwish