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Quotes tagged “Poetry”

“And there is, for me, no difference between writing a good poem and moving into sunlight against the body of a woman I love.”
— Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
Tagged: Poetry, Creative Creating
“This is not a tirade it's a prayer.”
— Kanye West, Kanye West on Instagram
Tagged: Kanye West, Prayers, Social Media, Poetry
“You don't give money to the bums
On a corner with a sign bleeding from their gums
Talking about you don't support a crack head?
What you think happens to the money from your taxes?
Shit the Government's an addict
With a billion dollar a week kill brown people habit
And even if you ain't on the front line
When massah yell crunch time, you right back at it
Plain look at how you hustling backwards
At the end of the year, add up what they subtracted
Three outta twelve months your salary pays for that madness
Man, that's sadness
What's left? get a big ass plasma
To see where they made Dan Rather point the damn camera
Only approved questions get answered
Now stand your ass up for that national anthem”
— Brother Ali, Uncle Sam Goddamn
Tagged: U.S., America, Politics, Rap, Poetry, War, Military, Freedom, Taxes, libertarian, Brother Ali, Rhymesayers
“There's always light if only we are brave enough to see it. If only we are brave enough to be it.”
— Amanda Gorman, The Inauguration of Joe Biden
Tagged: The hill we climb, Poet laureate, Inaugeration, Poetry
“Remind yourself that you deserve to feel like someone is excited to be with you, that someone is excited to commit to you, and dive into something concrete and foundational with you.”
— Bianca Sparacino, A Gentle Reminder
Tagged: Poetry, Books, Relationship, Advice
“All that poetry and all those songs... about something that lasts no time at all.”
— Jenny Mellor, An Education
Tagged: Poetry, Song, Music, Muse
“There is a light that will bathe you in
love and laughter and rejoice in your
celebration, whatever that looks like
for you.”
— Megan Minutillo, The Struggle Of Becoming
Tagged: Poetry, poem
“I have always been a huge believer in embracing one's uniqueness and finding ways to feel good in your own skin.”
— Lili Reinhart, Swimming Lessons
Tagged: Poetry, Poems
“Is that Eric Garner worked
for some time for the Parks and Rec.
Horticultural Department, which means,
perhaps, that with his very large hands,
perhaps, in all likelihood,
he put gently into the earth
some plants which, most likely,
some of them, in all likelihood,
continue to grow, continue
to do what such plants do, like house
and feed small and necessary creatures,
like being pleasant to touch and smell,
like converting sunlight
into food, like making it easier
for us to breathe.”
— Ross Gay, A Small Needful Fact
Tagged: Poetry, poem, Eric Garner , I Can't Breathe, Black Lives Matter
“The boy doesn't ask before he chokes me so I pretend to die while he's doing it.”
— Olivia Gatwood, Alternate Universe in Which I Am Unfazed by the Men Who Do Not Love Me
Tagged: Poetry, Choking, Sex
“The only things that seems to be certain are our fear and the fact that, after this moment, things will be forever changed.”
— Dani Janae, 9 Poems to Read in These Trying Times
Tagged: Poetry, Poems, Coronvirus, COVID-19
“Do you know what is so awful about these endless battles over rights? There's no room left for poetry.”
— Cardinal Gutierrez, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 6
Tagged: Poetry
“So Love ripped me apart, tore me to pieces, and still I stook like a fool with palms open, begging them for anything to prove they weren't done with me just yet.”
— Clara McGowan, In Which The Poet Defends Dani At The End Of Midsommar
Tagged: Midsommar, Love, Poetry, poem
“I look up at the moon. I remember the night we did it together, and you made a joke that something I said caused all the craters. As if my words are powerful enough to cause cosmic indents. You say, 'You will be a Poet Laureate.' And I say, 'Do you even know what that is? Because no, no I will not.' But you kiss me with your thin lips and mouth full of hope, but words that cut up my insides.”
— Ari Eastman, Things I Do When I Start Thinking About You
Tagged: Breakups, Heartbreak, Prose, Poetry
“The end came as silent as the leaves falling in autumn. There was no deciding moment; one day the leaves were falling then the next, the trees were bare. Our time has run out.”
— Kari Minobe, One Year Of You
Tagged: Breaking Up, Heartbreak, heart, Love, Poetry
“The kind of drivel that would get you kicked out of Year Five for not trying hard enough. But it was somehow connecting with people on a genuine level. What was going on?”
— Andrew Lloyd, I Faked My Way as an Instagram Poet, and It Went Bizarrely Well
Tagged: Instagram Poetry, Poetry, Social Media, Rupi Kaur
“Just say it, you always know the killer was a woman if she cleaned up after.”
— Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party
Tagged: Poetry, Poems, Death, Grief, Anger, feminism
“Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole, chirps on about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful.”
— Maggie Smith, Good Bones
Tagged: Poetry, poem, Poems About Life
“You can't let someone use you to ease their hunger.”
— Clara McGowan, My Sister Wants Me To Write A Poem About Twilight
Tagged: Poetry, Love, Young Love, real love, Love Poem, Twilight
“Poetry is truth, and great poetry is raw, and real, and messy, and glorious, and ugly.”
— Ms. De Brún, Derry Girls, Series 2: Ms De Brún and the Child of Prague
Tagged: Poetry, Poets, Truth, Words, Raw, Glorious, ugly, Deep

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