"Tonight I feel the stars are out to use me for target practice."

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Source : Yusef Komunyakaa (2013). “Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems”, p.69, Wesleyan University Press

Yusef Komunyakaa

#Stars Quotes #Practice Quotes #Use Quotes

“I have great friends. That's key for me for: surrounding myself with people who are supportive and kind.”
“The surest thing in the world is not death and taxes, it's death and eternity. Yet, we're so unconcerned.”
“Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one.”
“economics limps along with one foot in untested hypotheses and the other in untestable slogans.”

Source : "Metaphysics, Morals and Science" (1962)
“O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion.”
“It is easy to get to the top after you get through the crowd at the bottom.”
“When I started doing improvise music in Europe, in the beginning I thought the way that Europeans were interpreting the reconstruction of deconstruction of this thing that we call jazz - of course it's different than what Americans do, because Europeans have a different history, a different sensibility and so forth - the nature of the creative process itself it's the same; but what comes from that creative process is different, because you have a different history, you have a different society, different language.”

Source : Source: the-attic.net
“I don't think my lyrics go so well when I try to sound poetic. Some people do that really well. If I did that I'd feel like it wouldn't be genuine.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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