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Yusef Komunyakaa Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Past Believe I Believe Try Concrete

A mentor enables a person to achieve. A hero shows what achievement looks like.

John C. Mather

Hero Achievement Mentor Looks Person

I just wanted to have a private life.

Sia

Life Private Life Just Wanted

I've done a lot of period stuff but that's mostly because, in England, we get off on a lot of period stuff, but it's not any kind of particular choice. That's where a lot of the work is.

Rupert Everett

Work Choice Done Kind Get Off

You can sell nothing for a mark-up for a while, but only until something starts eating away at it. Now I can go home and click on Yahoo, call my sister and talk over a microphone for free.

Michael K. Powell

Home Sister Eating Free You I Can

There's tonnes of room for more people in the tech market, and there are lots of content gaps that have still not yet been tapped into.

Jon Oringer

People More Content Room Market

I would argue that the issue of God and the issue of science have the same roots.

Dinesh D'Souza

God Science Roots Same Would Argue

I feel like I could carry a movie or a show, and I'll mess up here and there, and I'll learn from those things.

Constance Wu

Feel Learn Mess Up Carry Here

You always want to have a mix of conservatives and liberals on a panel, especially on election night.

Constance Zimmer

Night You Election Want Always Mix

I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify.

Colin Farrell

Nature Success Philosophy Wealth New

I wanted to make a film as an artist, and it's going to have to find an audience, you know. I don't know how big the audience will be.

Anton Corbijn

You Artist Find Know Will Audience

I love hip-hop, R&B, techno and Latin.

Prince Royce

Love Hip-Hop Techno I Love Latin

Many have gone on to do important scientific work but all remember those wonderful times when we and our science were young and our excitement in meeting new challenges knew no bounds.

Sydney Brenner

Work Science Challenges Remember New