Komunyakaa Poem Quotes & Sayings

How nice it is to know you are so profoundly happy, it's had me beaming all day. — Jean-Paul Sartre

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood. There was poetry for quiet companionship. There was adventure when she tired of quiet hours. There would be love stories when she came into adolescence and when she wanted to feel a closeness to someone she could read a biography. On that day when she first knew she could read, she made a vow to read one book a day as long as she lived. — Betty Smith

Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the classical rules, even if only to break them; and to be prepared to edit, to revise, to shape. — Yusef Komunyakaa

I was living in Florida working as a model and got my first acting job there in the movie 'Wild Things.' I thought it was sort of cool and decided to do some training. — Jennifer Bini Taylor

As a kid, I just loved cartoons. And as the credits went by, I'd study those names and then try to figure how I could get hired to do what Mel Blanc and Daws Butler did. Create all of these great voices for animated characters. — Jim Cummings

I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem. — Yusef Komunyakaa

You don't want your marriage to be sustainable. You want to be evolving, nurturing, learning. — Mitchell Joachim

Hunger is such an incredible inconvenience. — Kami Garcia

I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems. — Yusef Komunyakaa

Life's too short not to have fun with what you wear. — Ireland Baldwin