Clinton D. Powell quotes

  • I want to be able to touch every part of our community with poetry.
    -- Clinton D. Powell

    #Poetry #Community #Want

  • These kids will make you cry, laugh... They make you feel all kinds of emotions through their writings and they share a lot with me, as an instructor, that they might not normally share with other people because they are young artists and they need a platform for pulling that stuff out.
    -- Clinton D. Powell

    #Kids #Writing #Artist

  • Once you do a piece on the stage, you become that poem or you become that piece. That's really who you are. I think that's why some artists have stage names, you know? I don't have a stage name, it's pretty much just me.
    -- Clinton D. Powell

    #Thinking #Artist #Names

  • Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of innocence.

  • Poets are born, not paid.

  • We need a safe place, a reserve of truth, a place where words kindle ideas and set ideas sparking off in others, a word sanctuary. Poetry is this gathering place of words.

  • It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ's Church to one's own little community. It is everywhere, in all parts of the world; and whatever its external form, frequently changing, often impure, yet the gifts wherever received increase our riches.

  • It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.

  • ...we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.

  • I want everyone to keep the property that he has acquired for himself according to the principle:benefit to the community precedes benefit to the individual. But the state should retain supervision and each property owner should consider himself appointed by the state. It is his duty not to use his property against the interests of others among his own people. This is the crucial matter. The Third Reich will always retain its right to control the owners of property.

  • One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.

  • I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.

  • Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.