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I shall sing a lullaby
To the song I have made
Of your hair and eyes . . .
And you will never know
That...
Oh, stir the lucid waters of thy sleep
And coin for me a tale
Of happy loves and gems and joyous limbs
And...
Brushes and paints are all I have
To speak the music in my soul . . .
Source:...
Some things are very dear to me --
Such things as flowers bathed by rain
Or patterns traced upon the...
You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into...
Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all...
Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it...
Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the...
People with honorary awards are looked upon with disfavor. Would you let an honorary mechanic fix your brand-new...
Dialect or the speech of the people is capable of expressing whatever the people are.
I wanted to understand my people. I wanted to understand what it meant to he a Negro. what the qualities of life were....
[T]he sincere, sensitive artist, willing to go beneath the cliches of popular belief to get at an underlying reality,...
One thing they cannot prohibit --
The strong men . . . coming on
The strong men gittin' stronger.
Strong...
I have . . . a deep concern with the development of a literature worthy of our past, and of our destiny; without which...
Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.
Source: In Listen to...
children
when they ask you
why your mama so funny
say
she is a poet
she don't have no...
i keep hearing
tree talk
water words
and i keep knowing what they mean.
. . . even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties, in my definitions, I did...
People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more...