Yusef Komunyakaa Quotes - Page 2

• Whoever said men hit harder when women are around, is right. Word for word, we beat the love out of each other.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Men, Beats, Said

  Yusef Komunyakaa (2013). “Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems”, p.18, Wesleyan University Press

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• I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and when Oliver plays with other sax players, it's like a dialogue.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Player, Voice, Lakes

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• There's a sameness about American poetry that I don't
  think represents the whole people. It represents a poetry
  of the moment, a poetry of evasion, and I have problems
  with this. I believe poetry has always been political, long
  before poets had to deal with the page and white
  space . . . it's natural.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Believe, Thinking, White

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• I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One fits on top of the other, and hopefully there's an ongoing evolution of clarity.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Thinking, Ongoing, Clarity

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• Cursing themselves in ragged dreamsfire has singed the edges of,they know a slow dying the fields have come to terms with.Shimmering fans work against the heat& smell of gunpowder, making moneyfloat from hand to hand. The next momenta rocket pushes a white fistthrough night sky, & they scatter like birds& fall into the shape their liveshave become.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Fall, Night, White

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