Better Quote by Nikki Giovanni Download Open image “If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.” — Nikki Giovanni ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Better Everybody Poet Poetry Read World
There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the only thing poets seem… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
“Considering the ways in which so many of us waste our time, what would be wrong with a world in which everybody were writing poems? After all, there’s a significant service to humanity in spending time doing no harm. While you’re writing your poem, there’s one less scoundrel in the world. And I’d like a world, wouldn’t you, in which… — Ted Kooser Copy Share
If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily. — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
This quality becomes important at a time when almost everyone is a poet. And as I said, we live in an age where almost… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love. — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
It's difficult to put your own bare ass out on the limb every time you sit down to write a poem. But that's really… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding. — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I just think she was a wonderful woman. What I think of when I think of Nina [Simone] is someone that I could relate… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
You do what you can with what you have. You have to work the edges whatever they are. The main thing is keeping your… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
I’ve not learned the acceptable way of saying you fascinate me...I’ve not even learned how to say I like you without frightening people away- — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Young people coming up who are having difficulty with their so-called celebrity need to get back into their lives. It's your life and you… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
[To become a poet] The most important thing is to pay attention. The next would probably be to read; it's so important to pay… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and i told him i’m gonna beat out my own rhythm — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Everybody has their cliques, and I was very shy. I'm still very shy. Music opened up doors. I would get to my choir class,… — Luis Fonsi Copy Share Image
You can't force people to feel in a certain way, and the sooner you understand that,the better. I feel everything has its way of… — Sidharth Malhotra Copy Share Image
I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better? — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
A strong, durable Puerto Rican economy will leave the island better prepared to handle future natural disasters. — Rachel Campos-Duffy Copy Share Image
In my first 100 days as Ontario's Minister of Transportation, I found a willing municipal partner in the City of Toronto that shares our… — Caroline Mulroney Copy Share Image
It hasn't been a conscious thing, like, 'I don't want to listen to a bunch of dudes,' but I genuinely like music by women… — Soccer Mommy Copy Share Image
Life is going to hit you some line drives, and sometimes you'll have to think fast. However, it's better to think first than to… — John Bytheway Copy Share Image
I like to collaborate with other people for studio recordings because I believe collaboration, in any form, makes music better. — Lou Barlow Copy Share Image
Absolutely, you can improve and become better at toughness. It's a talent, but it can be acquired, too. I think of it like building… — Jim Harbaugh Copy Share Image
Not having drops and not taking plays off, if I do that it will make everyone around me better. — Demaryius Thomas Copy Share Image
Cara Delevingne and I took an eyebrow selfie. We both have prominent eyebrows, but hers are much better than mine. Maybe we should do… — Will Poulter Copy Share Image