“Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It's a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question. Sometimes, more actually gets said through such a technique than a full frontal assault.” WayKindSaidIdeasSometimesTalkingTechniquePoetry IsAssaultExpanding Book:Blue notes: essays, interviews, and commentaries Source: Blue notes: essays, interviews, and commentaries
“I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.” KnowsKindRiskResponsibleWitnessCelebrationDaringDiscoveringQuestioningExistentialConfrontationEnergetic Author:Yusef Komunyakaa
“Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.” PeopleLooksHeartKindRealizingViolenceHorrorGunAimTerrorVietnamTraps Author:Yusef Komunyakaa
