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Tonight I feel the stars are out
to use me for target practice. — Yusef Komunyakaa
to use me for target practice. — Yusef Komunyakaa
I said that love heals from inside.
— Yusef Komunyakaa
I think of language as our first music.
— Yusef Komunyakaa
A goddess of dawn
scooted under a zing of barbed wire
to witness your birth. — Yusef Komunyakaa
scooted under a zing of barbed wire
to witness your birth. — Yusef Komunyakaa
Holy hypixia, Batman
— J.R. Ward
Now I have beaten a song back into you, rise and walk away like a panther.
— Yusef Komunyakaa
I'm turning you into a girl
chasing a butterfly, a she-wolf
on a hilltop, & then back into a woman. — Yusef Komunyakaa
chasing a butterfly, a she-wolf
on a hilltop, & then back into a woman. — Yusef Komunyakaa
The unknown is scary. It's unknown for a reason. That's why normal people don't go there.
— Geoff Green
You can two-time satan
But you can't lick the Holy Ghost. — Yusef Komunyakaa
But you can't lick the Holy Ghost. — Yusef Komunyakaa
America is a tune. It must be sung together.
— Gerald Stanley Lee
I arrived in Bangkok in 1980: I was 23 years old, and it changed my life.
— Jean-Georges Vongerichten
I am this space my body believes in.
— Yusef Komunyakaa
I glimpsed Alice in Wonderland.
Her voice smelled like an orange,
though I'd never peeled an orange.
I knocked on the walls, in a circle. — Yusef Komunyakaa
Her voice smelled like an orange,
though I'd never peeled an orange.
I knocked on the walls, in a circle. — Yusef Komunyakaa
I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
— Yusef Komunyakaa
Forgive me for my sappiness, but it's the only means I have to convey the molecular destruction I experienced caught in the vision of his smile.
— Dan Skinner
Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.
— Yusef Komunyakaa
See how forgiving - how brave nature is.
— Yusef Komunyakaa
I knew life
Began where I stood in the dark,
Looking out into the light. — Yusef Komunyakaa
Began where I stood in the dark,
Looking out into the light. — Yusef Komunyakaa
Doctor. The word for healer and wise man throughout the universe. We get that word from you, you know?' River Song, A Good Man Goes to War
— Cavan Scott
Whoever said men
hit harder when women
are around, is right.
Word for word,
we beat the love
out of each other. — Yusef Komunyakaa
hit harder when women
are around, is right.
Word for word,
we beat the love
out of each other. — Yusef Komunyakaa
Foolhearted mindreader,
help us see how
the heart begs,
how fangs of opprobrium
possess our eyes. — Yusef Komunyakaa
help us see how
the heart begs,
how fangs of opprobrium
possess our eyes. — Yusef Komunyakaa
I ate mythology & dreamt'
- Yusef Komunyakaa (Blackberries) — Yusef Komunyakaa
- Yusef Komunyakaa (Blackberries) — Yusef Komunyakaa
Creativity is the ability to identify self-imposed constraints, remove them, and explore the consequences of their removal.
— Russell L. Ackoff