Nikky Finney Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“The library, to me, is the second most sacred physical space on the planet.”
-- Nikky Finney

#Space #Library #Sacred
“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

#Art #Mean #Important
“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

#Alphabet #Watches #Film
“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

#Reading #Naked #World
“My responsibility as a poet, as an artist, is to not look away.”
-- Nikky Finney

#Responsibility #Artist #Looks

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