Top 19 Performance Poem Quotes
#1. My first performance poem was about how sometimes I was teased for being manly, or a tomboy or whatever. It was saying how just because I looked a certain way and displayed myself a certain way didn't mean that I wasn't also a feminine human ... a woman if you will.
Sarah Kay
#2. The room was the poem, the day I was in. Oh Christ. What writes my poem is the second ring, inner or outer. Poetry is just the performance of it. These little things, whether I write them or not. That's the score. The thing of great value is you. Where you are, glowing and fading, while you live.
Eileen Myles
#3. But it was the last string. It was a lame string, for sure, but it was the one I had left, and every paper girl needs at least one string, right?
John Green
#5. My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.
Jennifer O'Neill
#6. I told Celine Dion not to record that 'Titanic' song. That's about as big as you can get. 'Flashdance?' I thought, 'Welder by day, disco dancer by night - who wants to see that?'
David Foster
#7. I believe in you, and your choices, and that most often and like mine, they will be wrong.
K.I. Hope
#8. The more consciously and freely we choose an evil, the more responsible we are for it and the more guilty we are of it; this is why spiritual sins like pride are greater in guilt than carnal sins.
Peter Kreeft
#9. I was born under a lucky star, and I have nothing whatsoever to regret. I wouldn't change a thing about my life.
Richard Branson
#10. Income-producing unit trusts are brilliant because if you can accept capital values will be volatile for a while, your dividend income will always be higher than what you get in the bank.
Peter Hargreaves
#13. Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong.
Marilyn Nelson
#14. Having a good idea is one thing, but persuading other people to buy it is quite another. Good inventors are polymaths: they think with their hands and their brains. They're experts in design, engineering and business.
James Dyson
#15. I look at someone like Giggsy and he is an inspiration to all of us.
Phil Neville
#16. Being an American in Australia isn't easy,
but I'm trying to integrate, I'm trying to fit in.
Billy Marshall Stoneking
#17. I believe that poems are a score for performance by the reader, and that you become the speaking voice. You don't read or overhear the voice in the poem - you are the voice in the poem.
Helen Vendler
#18. Because only savage women and animals are sincere. Once civilization has introduced a demand for such comforts as, for instance, feminine virtue, sincerity is out of place ...
Anton Chekhov
#19. I remember walking down the aisle, and I got down on my knees as a person who is so selfish, but when I rose back up the Lord had become the Master of my life.
Tim Scott
