Nikky Finney Quotes

#1. I remember saying to myself, those things are very, very important to hear, but there must be another way to say them so that they will truly be heard. I mean, that's what art is. Art is about being provocative; art is also about beauty and if you leave the latter out, the former doesn't matter.

Nikky Finney

#2. Don't put your wand there, boy! ... Better wizards than you have lost buttocks, you know!

J.K. Rowling

#3. In every one of these haunting and hungry poems, Howell draws a map for how to enter the heat and dew of the human being, naked and facing the natural world, desperate to feel. I did not realize while reading Render how deeply I was handing everything over.

Nikky Finney

#4. Watch your life as if it were a film. Absorb everything. What you see, hear, and feel will stamp every alphabet of your work.

Nikky Finney

#5. Josh Duhamel is somebody you can't take your eyes off of, and same with T.R. Knight. It's a car that you want to run up to 100 mph, right away.

Bridget Carpenter

#6. My responsibility as a poet, as an artist, is to not look away.

Nikky Finney

#7. If you want to do something that's going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy.

Jamie Zawinski

#8. The library, to me, is the second most sacred physical space on the planet.

Nikky Finney

#9. When the soul looks out of its body, it should see only beauty in its path. These are the sights we must hold in mind, in order to move to a higher place.

Yusef Lateef

#10. Knowledge of the name gives him who knows it mastery even over the being and will of the god.

Ernst Cassirer

#11. There is nothing more awe-inspiring than a miracle except the credulity that can take it at par.

Mark Twain

#12. I had an art teacher who's the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That's where she had gone and kept raving over their art department.

Sela Ward