“My first performance poem was about how sometimes I was teased for being manly, or a tomboy or whatever. It was saying how just because I looked a certain way and displayed myself a certain way didn't mean that I wasn't also a feminine human...a woman if you will.” IfsWayFirstsHumansMeanSometimesCertainPerformancesFeminineManly Author:Sarah Kay
“I have always thought of poetry as an act of celebration. Just by nature of writing a poem you are taking the time to dwell on whatever it is that you're writing about...you can be celebrating anger, you can be celebrating sorrow... you are spending the time to focus and observe and try to understand the various parts of being human.” WritingTryingHumansFocusSorrowVariousSpendingCelebrateCelebrationBeing Human Author:Sarah Kay
“Nothing is as universal as some good scatalogical humor. I try to shift the frame in which people think about poetry from being distant or "sacred" to being more human, because then I think it becomes easier to feel like poetry belongs to us, is for us, is from us.” PeopleThinkingFeelsTryingHumansEasierUniversalSacredPoetry Is Author:Sarah Kay
“Such a little thing really, a kiss... most people don't give it a moment's consideration. They kiss on meeting, they kiss on parting, that simple touching of flesh is taken entirely for granted as a basic human right.” PeopleGivingHumansLittlesMomentsSimpleTakenKissingMeetingsFleshGrantedConsiderationLittle ThingsTouchingParting Author:Sarah Kay
“I want [my daughter] to look at the world through the underside of a glass-bottom boat, to look through a microscope at the galaxies that exist on the pinpoint of a human mind.” WorldWantMindHumansLooksInspirationMotivationDaughterBottomGlassesBoatMy DaughterHuman MindGalaxyMicroscopes Author:Sarah Kay
“I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live.” ThinkingHumansMatterStoriesWho You AreInstinctWhere You Live Author:Sarah Kay
