When you are learning through poetry how to speak ... -Amanda Gorman

When you are learning through poetry how to speak English, it lends to a great understanding of sound, of pitch, of pronunciation, so I think of my speech impediment not as a weakness or a disability, but as one of my greatest strengths.

Amanda Gorman , Poet
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Amanda Gorman is an American poet and activist. She gained international attention with her poem "The Hill We Climb," which she recited at the inauguration of President Joe Biden in 2021. Gorman's powerful and inspiring poetry, focusing on themes of social justice and unity, has made her one of the most influential young poets of her generation. Her work has garnered critical acclaim and has earned her numerous awards and honors.

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Poetry is - it's an art form, but, to me, it's also a weapon, it's also an instrument. It's the ability to make ideas that have been known, felt and s...
When you are learning through poetry how to speak English, it lends to a great understanding of sound, of pitch, of pronunciation, so I think of my sp...
I was writing since I can remember - I just didn't know it was poetry yet, or that writing could be a career....
The oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition....
Poetry is interesting because not everyone is going to become a great poet, but anyone can be, and anyone can enjoy poetry, and it's this openness, th...
Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change....
I have to interweave my poetry with purpose. For me, that purpose is to help people, and to shed a light on issues that have far too long been in the ...
Poetry is the lens we use to interrogate the history we stand on and the future we stand for....
Poetry has never been the language of barriers, it's always been the language of bridges....
One: whose shoulders do you stand on? And two: what do you stand for? These are two questions that I always begin my poetry workshops with students be...

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In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up t...
I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now....
I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry....
However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propell...
And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so....
And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it....
All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous be...
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry....
Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be relate...
In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same t...