#poe

The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

#biggest #biggest problem #boring #people #poetry

There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

#adult #apprehension #becoming #excitement #great

Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second. ↗

— Ken Kesey

#first #ginsberg #goes #poet #second

I really appreciate Frank Ocean's lyrical style, I appreciate the way that he can kind of draw you into this personal space, but it's still lyrical. It's almost poetic, in a way, but it's very personal at the same time. ↗

— Alicia Keys

#appreciate #draw #frank #i #into

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition. ↗

— Eli Khamarov

#definition #liberate #poets #possession #soldiers

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#beautiful #beautiful music #conceals #cries #formed

I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to. ↗

— Jewel Kilcher

#i #i think #just #kids #poetry

What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#fiction #fiction writer #humanity #own #people

If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

#another #before #began #decade #half

I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published. ↗

— Sally Kirkland

#along #art #dance #english #eventually