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Yusef Komunyakaa quotes: Tonight I feel the stars are out to use me for target practice.

Tonight I feel the stars are out
to use me for target practice.

Yusef Komunyakaa quotes: I said that love heals from inside.

I said that love heals from inside.

Yusef Komunyakaa quotes: I think of language as our first music.

I think of language as our first music.

Yusef Komunyakaa quotes: A goddess of dawnscooted under a zing of barbed wireto witness your birth.

A goddess of dawn
scooted under a zing of barbed wire
to witness your birth.

Yusef Komunyakaa quotes: Now I have beaten a song back into you, rise and walk away like a panther.

Now I have beaten a song back into you, rise and walk away like a panther.

Yusef Komunyakaa quotes: I'm turning you into a girlchasing a butterfly, a she-wolfon a hilltop, & then back into a woman.

I'm turning you into a girl
chasing a butterfly, a she-wolf
on a hilltop, & then back into a woman.

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

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

Yusef Komunyakaa quotes: I am this space my body believes in.

I am this space my body believes in.

Yusef Komunyakaa quotes: 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.

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 quotes: I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.

I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.

Yusef Komunyakaa quotes: Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.

Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.

Yusef Komunyakaa quotes: See how forgiving - how brave nature is.

See how forgiving - how brave nature is.

Yusef Komunyakaa quotes: I knew lifeBegan where I stood in the dark,Looking out into the light.

I knew life
Began where I stood in the dark,
Looking out into the light.

Yusef Komunyakaa quotes: You can two-time satanBut you can't lick the Holy Ghost.

You can two-time satan
But you can't lick the Holy Ghost.

Yusef Komunyakaa quotes: Foolhearted mindreader,help us see howthe heart begs,how fangs of opprobrium possess our eyes.

Foolhearted mindreader,
help us see how
the heart begs,
how fangs of opprobrium
possess our eyes.

Yusef Komunyakaa quotes: I ate mythology & dreamt'- Yusef Komunyakaa (Blackberries)

I ate mythology & dreamt'
- Yusef Komunyakaa (Blackberries)

Yusef Komunyakaa quotes: We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.

We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.

Yusef Komunyakaa quotes: It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.

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

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