We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
Interpretation
Embracing positivity is a personal commitment to focus on the good aspects of life rather than the negative ones.
This quote by Yusef Komunyakaa emphasizes the importance of consciously choosing to focus on the positive aspects of life, despite the challenges and negativity that may arise. It suggests that maintaining a positive outlook is not just a passive occurrence, but an active personal project that requires dedication and effort.
In practice
During a motivational speech to inspire resilience in your audience.
Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the classical rules, even if only to break them; and to be prepared to edit, to revise, to shape.
It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.
I originally wanted to embrace the imagery and forthrightness of rap music. There are some interesting, dynamic voices in rap. But I find most of it irresponsible in its overt violence and commercialization of anger. As artists, we believe we can will action through language. If that's the case, we have to take responsibility for what we say.
I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
Poetry helps me understand who I am. It helps me understand the world around me. But above all, what poetry has taught me is the fact that I need to embrace mystery in order to be completely human.
Tonight I feel the stars are out_x000D_ to use me for target practice.
Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.
Where are they written?" "In the world around us. Merely be attentive to what happens in your life, and you will discover where, every moment of the day, He hides His words and His will. Seek to do as He asks: this alone is the reason you are in the world." "If I discover it, I'll write it on clay tablets." "Do so. But write them, above all, in your heart; there they can neither burned nor destroyed, and you will take them wherever you go.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
It's good to learn from your mistakes. It's better to learn from other people's mistakes.
When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
Over the years, I've evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More often than not, by beginning at the end and contemplating the conclusions, one can determine if it's worth going through the whole to get there.
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