“To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.” WritingCarePoet Author:Lucille Clifton
“People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.” PeopleShouldWritingWishMistakePoetCelebrateCelebrationHymns Author:Lucille Clifton
“I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn't come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody walked off of a savanna or out of a cave and looked up at the sky with wonder and said, "Ahhh." That was the first poem.” ThinkingFirstsSaidRememberPoetryWonderSkyPoetPoetry IsClassroomCavesSavanna Author:Lucille Clifton
“Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense” ChildrenFunnyAsksPoetMama Book:Good times: poems Source: Good times: poems
