Jamila Woods Quotes

I find that children have very little trouble understanding non-literal stories.

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.

The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.

One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.

The single thing I've found it valuable to memorize is poetry.

I like bringing my poet brain and sensibility to lyrics I write.

In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In SF, a trope - at least as I understand the usage - is more: science used other than literally.

Once we start hitting lyrical themes that can whack you from all these different perspectives, we know we're onto something special.

Twittering and blogging and all that is fine, but there is no idea of how to phrase something beautifully; how to use language to create an emotion. It's just passing information and sometimes very superficial information.

Metaphor is embodied in language.

My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail.

I use not casual phrases but imagistic phrases that create a rhythm of natural presence.

Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

My favorite poem ever was 'Annabel Lee' by Edgar Allan Poe.

'Love' is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like 'move.' The alternative is a plague of doves, or a kind of poem in which the poet addresses his adored both as 'love' and as 'guv' - a perfectly decent solution once, but only once, in a while.

Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

My fans have always loved my metaphors.

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

I'm a very conceptual writer.

You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.

I like to play with tropes.

Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.