Jamaican Poetry Quotes

#1. a hymn then
not to birds but to words
which themselves feel
like feather and wing
and light, as if it were
on the delicacy of
such sweet syllables
that flocks take flight.

Kei Miller

#2. Know then that every heartbless
given is collected by Jah like mickle and muckle,
or like a basketful of cocoa, and comes back to you
like a dividend.

Kei Miller

#3. Lost something?'
Yes, my mind.

Sebastian Fitzek

#4. And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him.

Corrie Ten Boom

#5. Make a virtue of necessity.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#6. Get them to sing your song and they will want to know who you are.

Paul Robeson

#7. The night before, Paramedic (in Training) Lindsey Lee Wells had diagnosed him with moderate contusions and "sprained balls" after an exhaustive search of medical Web sites. She diagnosed TOC as suffering from 'I'm-an-asshole-and-Lindsey's-never-going-to-speak-to-me-again-itis'.

John Green

#8. I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.

Frances Fisher