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Yusef Komunyakaa Quotes

Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.

Yusef Komunyakaa

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Words Language Matter Seen Working

Running gives you a great opportunity to work stuff out in your head.

Work Opportunity Great You Out Head

I'm surrounded by such beautiful, creative people, and I just love sort of sharing their stories and their journeys.

Solange Knowles

Love Beautiful Creative People Just

Most fighters are nervous before they go out there. Nervousness makes the body tight. I don't like that. I want to fight with a normal feeling. That's why I move the fingers, shoulders, everything. I try to move like spaghetti.

Shinsuke Nakamura

Fight Body Feeling Go Want Nervous

All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.

Work Project Single Being Fact Our

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.

Communication Quality Joy People

I'm getting a little tired of everybody quoting Ronald Reagan.

Tired Little Everybody Ronald Reagan

Filmmakers have to really find a unique take on something if they're going to explore an already-explored genre of movies.

Unique Find Movies Explore Going

I'm not even an engineer. I don't have a college degree; I hire guys with college degrees.

College College Degree Degree Hire

I'm willing to zap conservatives when they do things that are not libertarian.

Things Libertarian Willing

Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society.

Pervez Musharraf

Society Loss Doubt Lost Said Dead

The thing about the creative process is it's so chaotic.

Creative Process Creative Process

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.

Men Mountains Never Over Stumble

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