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See how forgiving - how brave nature is.


Yusef Komunyakaa

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- Yusef Komunyakaa (Blackberries)
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
LAURENCE STERNE Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of...
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the...
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, gl...
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in...
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychologic...
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, ha...
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and lo...
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own l...
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what ...
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poetry helps me understand who I am. It helps me understand the world around me. But above all, what...
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value o...
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can...
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader ...
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA I originally wanted to embrace the imagery and forthrightness of rap music. There are some interesti...
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for ...
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA You can two-time satan
But you can't lick the Holy Ghost.
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA We were The Hottentot Venus
Draped in our mothers' dresses,
Wearing rouge & lipstick,<...
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature...
LAURENCE STERNE Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human natu...
STERNE What I’ve learned the most through this, ... is how resilient Maggie is and how brave she is.
CINDY NELSON What I’ve learned the most
through this, ... is how resilient Maggie is and
how brave she...
CINDY NELSON If you don't learn how to be scared, you'll never really learn how to be brave.
SIMON HOLT How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, that has such people in it!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how ...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA If you dont know learn how to be scared, you'll never really learn how to be brave.
SIMON HOLT Aren't the artists brave to go out and paint a sea as rough as that? I don't see how he kept his can...
RUTH DRAPER O, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Autumn is the time of year when Mother Nature says, “Look how easy, how healthy, and how beautiful...
TONI SORENSON Let’s learn how to be steady and brave, assertive and obstinate or how to have a will-to-win spiri...
SUNDAY ADELAJA How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY How hard it is to hide the sparks of nature!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Our true nature is one of innocence and freedom to choose how we live. We need to be brave enough no...
JAY WOODMAN Take charge of your life and create the success you really want
SOTONYE ANGA When I see how human beings treat each other . . . It makes me wonder what chance Mother Nature has ...
DETECTIVE DAVID LOVE How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, / By all their country's wishes blest!
WILLIAM COLLINS How guilt once harbour'd in the conscious breast, Intimidates the brave, degrades the great.
SAMUEL JOHNSON In the 1930s people went to see films not just to be entertained or to escape the dreariness of thei...
C. DAVID HEYMANN We are all impressed by how strong he is and how much he is fighting. He is just a real warrior, it ...
JOSE COHEN You know how sports teach kids teamwork and how to be strong and brave and confident? Improv was my ...
EMMA STONE You're all so busy trying to be tough that you've forgotten how to be brave.
K. TOWNE JR. How you look at it is pretty much how you'll see it
RASHEED OGUNLARU God is Love...
...so how you define love is how you see God...
VASQUEZ PIA We're inquiring into the deepest nature of our constitutions: How we inherit from each other. How we...
GERALD M. EDELMAN No human, no matter how ancient, or how popular, can be above the laws of Nature.
ABHIJIT NASKAR How inscrutable and incomprehensible are the hidden works of Nature!
ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK No matter how many flaws we have, our God is so forgiving and understanding. He'll never leave y...
ADRIAN PETERSON How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!
WILLIAM COLLINS It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we...
NIELS BOHR We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence...
MOTHER TERESA We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence....
MOTHER THERESA We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence....
MOTHER TERESA It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times...
KAREN ARMSTRONG Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.
MARGARET ATWOOD How Big is Too Big? Global Warming and Moral Choices, ... The End of Nature
BILL MCKIBBEN Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade.
LIONEL SHRIVER People say sometimes, gosh, that was brave of you to write such-and-such last week. 'Brave?'...
CARL HIAASEN I do not care how brave a president is; I do not care how many medals he may wear. I do not care how...
FERDINAND MARCOS How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the trut...
CURT WELDON In the tranquility of a majestic sunset, it is particularly striking how fondly I feel I am in natur...
JONATHAN CHEN No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. ...
DANICA PATRICK See how dirty this thing is getting?
DENISE LAYNE You can see how dysfunctional this Congress is.
PAT TOOMEY How quickly nature falls into revoltWhen gold becomes her object!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It's hard to express how angry I am about these attacks, how proud I am of the brave response on the...
TOM DASCHLE Attitude is everything. How you see it is how you treat it. What is our perspective about underage d...
MITCHELL MOORE I think being shy or a little bit more mild-mannered is more how you treat people and how you go abo...
COLIN KAEPERNICK Forgiveness is a gift to the one who is hurting.
JOSEE D'AMORE It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.
JEAN FRANCOIS REGNARD It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.
JEAN-FRANCOIS REGNARD It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many t...
KAREN ARMSTRONG We want to show how the university feels and show how the students feel and see how much of that is ...
ADAM ALLEN It's incredible to see how [Terri] is acting.
BOB SCHINDLER How does nature amplify the intelligence of groups? It forms swarms.
LOUIS B. ROSENBERG I'm not brave,' Ava replied huskily. 'If you only knew how afraid I really am. Sometimes I think I a...
KATE FORSYTH Invoking nature with its implied supremacy ignores that many cultures have fundamentally differing i...
GREGORY BENFORD O Dormer, how can I behold thy fate, And not the wonders of thy youth relate; How can I see th...
JOSEPH ADDISON It's pretty cool to see how far music can take you.
LUKE BRYAN Perhaps you are beginning to see how essential a part of reading it is to be perplexed and know it. ...
MORTIMER J. ADLER I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
VIKRAM SETH Managing water is as much cultural as technical, reflecting how peoples and communities relate thems...
KOICHIRO MATSUURA I study nature, and I realize that no matter how much you learn, you can't top nature.
TONY BENNETT Self confidence is the most attractive quality a person can have. how can anyone see how awesome you...
GUNDO MULAUDZI We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
IRIS MURDOCH The real difficulty about volcanism is not to see how it can start, but how it can stop.
HAROLD JEFFREYS Be crazy! But learn how to be crazy without being the center of attention. Be brave enough to live d...
PAULO COELHO Every day, you can see how confident David is,
CHRIS PALMER When they see us dance. When they see how you look at me. When they see how I smile at you.
PHILIPPA GREGORY Many other events are caused by nature but it is again how people react to an event of nature which ...
HORST CHRISTIAN How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
EMILY DICKINSON The focus there is to see how we compete against somebody (Hamilton County) of that caliber. Obvious...
ART BRANDON How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest! . . . . By f...
WILLIAM COLLINS What do I care how 'e looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show...
J.K. ROWLING Acting is how I'll be able to change how Latinos are viewed in media and change how little girls...
GINA RODRIGUEZ I can't let other people dictate how I see myself.
STERLING K. BROWN You always question what's new. It's human nature. While everything else, you know, no matter how st...
J.M. DARHOWER How can we put more brave astronauts in harm's way solely on NASA's assurance that this time they'll...
ANTHONY WEINER

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