Yusef Komunyakaa Quotes

It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.

Yusef Komunyakaa

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 29, 1947

Topics

MeWritingThoughtWayNeverWrite

It's hard to think of myself as an American, and yet I am not from India, a place where I was not born and where I have never lived.

Jhumpa Lahiri

MyselfI AmThinkAmericanBorn

Google is one of the most incredible breakthroughs that we have today. Yes, it can scare a lot of patients, thinking we're all dying because we look up something on Google. But there's also a lot of anecdotal information from parents, firsthand accounts of what they did for their own child.

Jenny McCarthy

TodayChildParentsThinkingLook

You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes.

Robert Schumann

BeautifulEyesYouBecomeWrite

The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare.

Meriwether Lewis

WeatherThreeFoxDeerTwoAbsence

And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America.

Tom Vilsack

PeopleAmericaPovertySometimes

I see a bright future for Florida and for America, and my campaign will be about the ideas and principles that will help us achieve a more perfect union.

Ron DeSantis

FutureIdeasAmericaHelpPerfect

The way Aventura became successful was so weird. We didn't have a major label. They say everything has a reason, but it's not easy to find. The only thing that was right was the music.

Romeo Santos

MusicWeirdEasyFindSayWay

Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule.

Lois Lowry

WritingSelfYouScheduleOwnYour

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn't know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn't even smell like smoke.

Joyce Meyer

LifeMarriageFatherMotherGod

Whenever you're dealing with something that's difficult to describe, that you can't get across to someone in a sound bite, it sounds like the normal default is to pick what's easiest, and in the case of fiction written by women, fiction involving women, fiction involving any sort of relationship, the word that comes to mind is 'romance.'

Diana Gabaldon

WomenRelationshipMindSomeoneYou

The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located.

Donald Knuth

KitchenImportantThe Most Important

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.

Bridget Riley

SpacePictureActiveSpectatorPlane

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